Morphology of sea ice pressure ridges in the northwestern Weddell Sea in winter

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Tan, Bing ^a,b   Li, Zhi Jun ^a   Lu, Peng ^a   Haas, Christian ^c   Nicolaus, Marcel ^d  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

BEST FIT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMIC ACTIONS; HEAVILY DEFORMED; HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; ICE AGE; ICE CONDITIONS; ICE REGIME; ICE SURFACE ELEVATION; ICE SURFACES; K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; LASER ALTIMETER; LEVEL ICE; LOG-NORMAL FUNCTIONS; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; NEGATIVE EXPONENTIAL; PRESSURE RIDGE; RIDGE FREQUENCY; RIDGED ICE; ROSS SEA; SATELLITE RADAR; SPACING DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; WEDDELL SEA;

SEA ICE;

AGE DETERMINATION; ALGORITHM; CUTOFF WALL; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; ICE RIDGE; OUTFLOW; PRESSURE FIELD; RADAR; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84863481034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007800     Document Type: Article

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