Thickness and production of sea ice in the Okhotsk Sea coastal polynyas from AMSR-E

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Nihashi, Sohey ^a   Ohshima, Kay I ^a   Tamura, Takeshi ^a   Fukamachi, Yasushi ^a   Saitoh, Sei Ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SNOW; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER- EOS; AIR TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DENSE SHELF WATER; FORMATION RATES; HEAT FLUX CALCULATION; ICE PRODUCTION; ICE SURFACES; ICE THICKNESS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; OKHOTSK SEA; POLARIZATION RATIOS; PRODUCTION AREA; PROFILING SONAR; SEA OF OKHOTSK; SNOW COVERS;

SEA ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ICE THICKNESS; POLARIZATION; POLYNYA; RADIOMETER; SEA ICE; SHELF SEA; SONAR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 76449103279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005222     Document Type: Article

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