Mapping of sea ice production in the Arctic coastal polynyas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Tamura, Takeshi ^a,b   Ohshima, Kay I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MAPPING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINE WATER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DETECTION AND ESTIMATION; FLUX CONDITIONS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; ICE PRODUCTION; ICE THICKNESS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; POLARIZATION RATIOS; SEA ICE PRODUCTION; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

SEA ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HALOCLINE; HEAT FLUX; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; POLYNYA; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA SALT; SSM-I;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79961191496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006586     Document Type: Article

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