The relation between sea ice thickness and freeboard in the Arctic

Cryosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 373-380

  Alexandrov, V ^a,b   Sandven, S ^b,c   Wahlin, J ^b   Johannessen, O M ^b  

^a Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center NIERSC   (Russian Federation)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CRYOSAT-2; CRYOSPHERE; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROSTATICS; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; ICE THICKNESS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; RADAR; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE; SNOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77957043412     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-4-373-2010     Document Type: Article

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