Regional-scale sea-ice and snow thickness distributions from in situ and satellite measurements over East Antarctica during SIPEX 2007

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1125-1136

  Worby, Anthony P ^a,b   Steer, Adam ^a,b   Lieser, Jan L ^b   Heil, Petra ^a,b   Yi, Donghui ^d   Markus, Thorsten ^e   Allison, Ian ^a,b   Massom, Robert A ^a,b   Galin, Natalia ^c,f   Zwally, Jay ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d SGT INC   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic zone; ASPeCt; ICESat; Laser altimeters; Remote sensing; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC ZONE; ASPECT; EAST ANTARCTICA; ICE CONCENTRATION; ICE EDGE; ICE THICKNESS; ICESAT; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LASER ALTIMETERS; LASER ALTIMETRY; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; PACK ICE; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SNOW PROPERTIES; SNOW THICKNESS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIO ALTIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

ICESAT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; PACK ICE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79954631411     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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