Freeboard, snow depth and sea-ice roughness in East Antarctica from in situ and multiple satellite data

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 57 PART 2, 2011, Pages 242-248

  Markus, Thorsten ^a   Massom, Robert ^b,c   Worby, Anthony ^b,c   Lytle, Victoria ^b   Kurtz, Nathan ^d   Maksym, Ted ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; BUOY SYSTEM; CORRELATION; DRIFTER; ICE BREAKER; ICE DRIFT; ICESAT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; SNOW;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79958172268     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756411795931570     Document Type: Article

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