Sea ice thickness retrieval from SMOS brightness temperatures during the Arctic freeze-up period

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kaleschke, L ^a   Tian Kunze, X ^a   Maass N ^a   Makynen M ^b   Drusch, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COLD CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FREEZE-UP; GROWTH SIMULATION; ICE GROWTH; ICE THICKNESS; L-BAND RADIOMETRY; LARGE PENETRATIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGING RADIOMETER USING APERTURE SYNTHESIS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT; THERMAL INFRARED IMAGERY;

SEA ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; FREEZING; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; INFRARED IMAGERY; MODIS; RADIOMETER; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84858222610     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL050916     Document Type: Article

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