The melt anomaly of 2002 on the Greenland Ice Sheet from active and passive microwave satellite observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Steffen, Koni ^a   Nghiem, S V ^b   Huff, R ^a   Neumann, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

1694 Global Change: Instruments and techniques; 1827 Hydrology: Glaciology (1863); 3349 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Polar meteorology; 3360 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

MELTING; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GREENLAND; ICE SHEET MELTING; PASSIVE MICROWAVE (PM) DATA;

SEA ICE;

ICE SHEET; MELTWATER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SSM-I;

EID: 11844277584     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020444     Document Type: Article

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