A sea-ice thickness retrieval model for 1.4 GHz radiometry and application to airborne measurements over low salinity sea-ice

Cryosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 583-592

  Kaleschke, L ^a   Maass N ^a   Haas, C ^b   Hendricks, S ^c   Heygster, G ^d   Tonboe, R T ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CRYOSAT-2; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE THICKNESS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SALINITY; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF BOTHNIA;

EID: 78650080848     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-4-583-2010     Document Type: Article

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