Variability in ice phenology on Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, from SeaWinds/QuikSCAT: 2000-2006

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 816-834

  Howell, Stephen E L ^a   Brown, Laura C ^a   Kang, Kyung Kuk ^a   Duguay, Claude R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Great Bear Lake; Great Slave Lake; Lake ice; Phenology; QuikSCAT

Indexed keywords

ICE;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; CENTRAL BASINS; GREAT BEAR LAKE; GREAT SLAVE LAKE; ICE COVERS; PHENOLOGY; QUIKSCAT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITIES; TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS;

LAKES;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; FREEZING; ICE; MELT; MONITORING; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

CANADA; GREAT BEAR LAKE; GREAT SLAVE LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 60749128594     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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