Five years of arctic sea ice freeboard measurements from the ice, cloud and land elevation satellite

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Farrell, Sinead L ^a   Laxon, Seymour W ^b   McAdoo, David C ^a   Yi, Donghui ^c,d   Zwally, H J ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SGT INC   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; LASERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SEA ICE; TIME SERIES;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; ICE , CLOUD AND LAND ELEVATION SATELLITES; LASER ALTIMETER; LEAD DETECTION; NATURAL VARIABILITY; OBSERVATION PERIOD; SEA ICE EXTENT; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; SEASONAL MEAN; SNOW THICKNESS; SURFACE REFLECTIVITY; WAVE FORMS;

SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD; DATA SET; ICE THICKNESS; LASER; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 68149132228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005074     Document Type: Article

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