Improvement and sensitivity analysis of thermal thin-ice thickness retrievals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3306-3318

  Adams, Susanne ^a   Willmes, Sascha ^a   Schroder, David ^b   Heinemann, Gunther ^a   Bauer, Martin ^a   Krumpen, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Laptev Sea; MODIS; remote sensing; thin ice thickness

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRATIFICATION; ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; LAPTEV SEA; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MODIS; MODIS ICE SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; THIN-ICE THICKNESS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERRORS; ITERATIVE METHODS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

SEA ICE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ENERGY BALANCE; ICE THICKNESS; MODIS; POLYNYA; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; LAPTEV SEA;

EID: 84878128395     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2219539     Document Type: Article

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