Interannual variability of young ice in the arctic estimated between 2002 and 2009

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3354-3370

  Shokr, Mohammed ^a   Dabboor, Mohammed ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; geophysical measurement techniques; global warming; microwave radiometry; radar remote sensing; sea ice

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; CONCENTRATION RETRIEVAL; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; REMOTE SENSING TOOLS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

SEA ICE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYNYA; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84878146339     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2225432     Document Type: Article

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