Properties of snow overlying the sea ice off East Antarctica in late winter, 2007

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1137-1148

  Toyota, Takenobu ^a   Massom, Robert ^b   Tateyama, Kazutaka ^c   Tamura, Takeshi ^b   Fraser, Alexander ^d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c KITAMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air ice drag coefficient; Antarctic snow on sea ice; East Antarctica; Flooding; Retrieval of ice thickness from satellite; Snow ice formation; Thermal conductivity of snow

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; ANTARCTIC SNOW ON SEA ICE; BULK THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; CONDUCTIVE HEAT FLUX; DATA SETS; DIURNAL MEASUREMENTS; DIURNAL VARIATION; EAST ANTARCTICA; FLOODING; HIGH SALINITY; ICE FLOES; ICE GROWTH; ICE MODEL; ICE SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ICE THICKNESS; ICE ZONES; L-BAND SAR; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MEASUREMENT OF ICE THICKNESS; NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; RETRIEVAL OF ICE THICKNESS FROM SATELLITE; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DENSITY; SNOW DEPTHS; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; VERTICAL PROFILE;

DRAG; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THICKNESS CONTROL;

SNOW;

AIR-ICE INTERACTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; DRAG COEFFICIENT; HEAT FLUX; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TOPOGRAPHY; WINTER;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; WILKES LAND;

EID: 79954628177     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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