Variations in the Arctic's multiyear sea ice cover: A neural network analysis of SMMR-SSM/I data, 1979-2004

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Belchansky, Gennady I ^a   Douglas, David C ^b   Eremeev, Vladimir A ^a   Platonov, Nikita G ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; MICROWAVES; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ARCTIC BASIN; ICE COVER; INTERANNUAL COVER; MICROWAVE SATELLITE DATA;

ICE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 21044457243     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022395     Document Type: Article

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