Application of aerosondes to melt-pond observations over Arctic Sea ice

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 327-334

  Inoue, Jun ^a   Curry, Judith A ^b   Maslanik, James A ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SEA ICE; TECHNOLOGY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; AEROSONDES; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA-ICE; CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; ICE CONCENTRATIONS; ICE FRACTION; MELT PONDS; NEGATIVE BIAS; ROBOTIC AIRCRAFT; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV)];

ICE;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; MELT; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; ROBOTICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 45249099735     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA955.1     Document Type: Article

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