The relation between Arctic sea ice surface elevation and draft: A case study using coincident AUV sonar and airborne scanning laser

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Doble, Martin J ^a   Skourup, Henriette ^b   Wadhams, Peter ^c   Geiger, Cathleen A ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b DTU Space   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SEA ICE; SNOW; SONAR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; BEAUFORT SEA; BOTTOM SURFACES; CORE REGION; CRYOSAT; FULL RESOLUTIONS; ICE FRACTION; LASER INSTRUMENT; LENGTH SCALE; LEVEL ICE; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SCANNING LASERS; SNOW THICKNESS; SONAR DATA; SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

AIR-SNOW INTERACTION; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; CRYOSAT-2; DATA SET; DEFORMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ISOSTASY; LASER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE; SONAR;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 81855180434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007076     Document Type: Article

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