Snow depth and ice thickness measurements from the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas collected during the AMSR-Ice03 Campaign

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3009-3019

  Sturm, Matthew ^b   Maslanik, James A ^c   Perovich, Donald K ^d   Stroeve, Julienne C ^e   Richter Menge, Jackie ^d   Markus, Thorsten ^a,f   Holmgren, Jon ^b   Heinrichs, John F ^a,g   Tape, Ken ^h  

^a IEEE

^b Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

^d Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryosphere; Field validation; Sea ice; Snow

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CRYOSPHERE; FIELD VALIDATION; POLARIMETRIC SCANNING RADIOMETER (PSR); TRAVERSE LINES;

SEA ICE;

EID: 33750841996     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.878236     Document Type: Article

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