Satellite microwave observations of the interannual variability of snowmelt on sea ice in the Southern Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Willmes, Sascha ^a   Haas, Christian ^b,c   Nicolaus, Marcel ^d   Bareiss, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SNOW; THAWING;

ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DIURNAL VARIATION; FIELD DATA; FIRST-YEAR; FREEZE-THAWING; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; MICROWAVE EMISSIVITY; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE SATELLITE DATA; REFREEZING; ROSS SEA; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW PROPERTIES; SNOW WETNESS; SNOWMELT; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; WEDDELL SEA;

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SNOWMELT;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 67649223957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004919     Document Type: Article

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