Intercomparison of passive microwave sea ice concentration retrievals over the high-concentration Arctic sea ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Andersen, Søren ^a   Tonboe, Rasmus ^a   Kaleschke, Lars ^b   Heygster, Georg ^c   Pedersen, Leif Toudal ^d  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ICE COVER; RADARSAT; SEA ICE; SSM-I; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 35349014790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003543     Document Type: Article

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