On the impact of ice emissivity on sea ice temperature retrieval using passive microwave radiance data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 448-452

  Hwang, Byong Jun ^a   Barber, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advanced microwave scanning radiometer EOS (AMSR E); Sea ice; Snow; Temperature

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER EOS (AMSR E); FIRST YEAR SEA ICE (FYI); ICE CONCENTRATIONS; IN-SITU; INTERFACE TEMPERATURES; PASSIVE MICROWAVE (PM); SNOW MELTING; TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS; TRANSITION PERIODS;

ICE;

EID: 47849121673     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.917266     Document Type: Article

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