ICESat measurements of sea ice freeboard and estimates of sea ice thickness in the Weddell Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Zwally, H Jay ^a   Yi, Donghui ^b   Kwok, Ron ^c   Zhao, Yunhe ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SGT INC   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SNOW; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOID; ICE MOVEMENT; ICE THICKNESS; PACK ICE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 42549104936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004284     Document Type: Article

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