Large-scale surveys of snow depth on Arctic sea ice from Operation IceBridge

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Kurtz, Nathan T ^a,b   Farrell, Sinead L ^b,c  

^a Department of Mathematics   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR SYSTEMS; SEA ICE; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA ICE; FIRST YEAR; ICE COVER; SEA-ICE COVER; SNOW DEPTHS; TIME-PERIODS;

SNOW;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPTH DETERMINATION; ICE COVER; PALEOCLIMATE; RADAR IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SNOW;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 80455164776     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049216     Document Type: Article

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