Ice cover variability in the Caspian and Aral seas from active and passive microwave satellite data

Polar Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-50

  Kouraev, Alexei V ^a,b   Papa, Fabrice ^a   Buharizin, Petr I ^c   Cazenave, Anny ^a   Cretaux, Jean Francois ^a   Dozortseva, Julia ^d   Remy, Frederique ^a  

^a CNES   (France)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d Hydrometeorol Ctr Caspian Fleet   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE COVER; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARAL SEA; CASPIAN SEA;

EID: 0042303915     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2003.tb00094.x     Document Type: Article

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