Impact of surface conditions on thin sea ice concentration estimate from passive microwave observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 121, Issue , 2012, Pages 36-50

  Shokr, Mohammed ^a   Kaleschke, Lars ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ice algorithms; Passive microwave; Sea ice concentration; Snow on sea ice; Thin ice

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH FREQUENCY CHANNELS; ICE CONCENTRATION; ICE MONITORING; ICE TYPE; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; REFREEZING; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SNOW LAYER; SPACE-BORNE; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE PROCESS; WEATHER EVENTS; WET SNOW;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MICROWAVES; SNOW;

SEA ICE;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857749478     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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