Global trends of sea ice: Small-scale roughness and refractive index

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 4669-4676

  Hong, Sungwook ^a   Shin, Inchul ^a  

^a National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ARCTIC SEA ICE; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; EXCHANGE OF ENERGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; GLOBAL TRENDS; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; INVERSION ALGORITHM; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA ICE EXTENT; SEA ICE MELTING; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; LIGHT REFRACTION; METAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ALGORITHM; MELTING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEA ICE; SNOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 77958101905     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3697.1     Document Type: Article

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