Estimating the time of melt onset and freeze onset over Arctic sea-ice area using active and passive microwave data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-39

  Belchansky, Gennady I ^a   Douglas, David C ^b   Mordvintsev, Ilia N ^a   Platonov, Nikita G ^a  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscattering cross section; Brightness temperature; Comparative analysis; Concentration; Freeze onset; IABP POLES; Melt onset; OKEAN 01; Sea ice type; SSM I; Surface air temperature

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; GEOPHYSICS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MICROWAVES; SEA ICE;

PASSIVE MICROWAVE AND SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS (PMSTA); SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES (SAT);

REMOTE SENSING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FREEZING; MELTING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 3242719540     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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