Sea ice thickness, freeboard, and snow depth products from Operation IceBridge airborne data

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1035-1056

  Kurtz, N T ^a,b   Farrell, S L ^c   Studinger, M ^b   Galin, N ^d   Harbeck, J P ^b,e   Lindsay, R ^f   Onana, V D ^b,e   Panzer, B ^g   Sonntag, J G ^b  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e ADNET SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CRYOSPHERE; DATA SET; ICE THICKNESS; MODEL TEST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER;

EID: 84880813543     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-1035-2013     Document Type: Article

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