Microwave signatures of snow on sea ice: Observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3081-3089

  Markus, Thorsten ^a,b   Cavalieri, Donald J ^a,b   Gasiewski, Albin J ^a,c   Klein, Marian ^a,d   Maslanik, James A ^c   Powell, Dylan C ^e,f   Boba Stankov, B ^d   Stroeve, Julienne C ^g   Sturm, Matthew ^h  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^f LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR); Passive microwave; Sea ice; Snow on sea ice; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER (AMSR); ICE TEMPERATURE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS WITHIN;

ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

SEA ICE;

EID: 33750830438     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.883134     Document Type: Article

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