Ku-band radar penetration into snow cover on Arctic sea ice using airborne data

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 57 PART 2, 2011, Pages 197-205

  Willatt, Rosemary ^a   Laxon, Seymour ^a   Giles, Katharine ^a   Cullen, Robert ^b   Haas, Christian ^c   Helm, Veit ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SNOW INTERACTION; AIRBORNE SENSING; ICE THICKNESS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF BOTHNIA;

EID: 79958148394     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756411795931589     Document Type: Article

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