First-year sea ice spring melt transitions in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from time-series synthetic aperture radar data, 1992-2002

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-265

  Yackel, J J ^a   Barber, D G ^b   Papakyriakou, T N ^b   Breneman, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Albedo; First year sea ice; Melt onset; SAR; Snow thickness; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE STATE; SNOW THICKNESS; SPRING MELT TRANSITIONS;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEA ICE; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; ICE THICKNESS; MELTWATER; RADARSAT; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPRING WATER;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33846451036     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6240     Document Type: Article

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