A new apparatus for monitoring sea ice thickness based on the magnetostrictive-delay-line principle

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 818-827

  Lei, Ruibo ^a   Li, Zhijun ^a   Cheng, Yanfeng ^b   Wang, Xin ^a   Chen, Yao ^c  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA   (China)

^c Wu Xi Fengrun Science and Technology Limited   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; DATA RECORDS; HIGH-PRECISION; ICE THICKNESS; LAND-FAST; SEA ICE MODELS; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SNOW THICKNESS; THICKNESS MONITORING;

MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

MONITORING;

ICE THICKNESS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA ICE; SENSOR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; ZHONGSHAN;

EID: 70349170475     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHO613.1     Document Type: Article

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