CryoSat-2 estimates of Arctic sea ice thickness and volume

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 732-737

  Laxon, Seymour W ^a   Giles, Katharine A ^a   Ridout, Andy L ^a   Wingham, Duncan J ^a   Willatt, Rosemary ^a   Cullen, Robert ^b   Kwok, Ron ^c   Schweiger, Axel ^d   Zhang, Jinlun ^d   Haas, Christian ^e   Hendricks, Stefan ^f   Krishfield, Richard ^g   Kurtz, Nathan ^h   Farrell, Sinead ⁱ   Davidson, Malcolm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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

^g WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^h Department of Mathematics   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Altimetry; CryoSat; Sea Ice; Volume

Indexed keywords

NASA; SEA ICE;

ALTIMETRY; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; CRYOSAT; CURRENT ESTIMATES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; MEASUREMENTS OF; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; VOLUME;

ESTIMATION;

CRYOSAT-2; DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; ICE THICKNESS; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VOLUME;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 84878184604     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50193     Document Type: Article

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