Variability and Trends of the Global Sea Ice Cover

Sea Ice: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 205-246

  Comiso, Josefino C ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour coded ice concentration monthly anomaly maps; Direct impact of sea ice cover on ocean well known and equally significant; DMSP Special Scanning Microwave Imager (SSM I) sensor; Large scale variability in sea ice cover using satellite passive microwave data; Nimbus 7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR); Pacific South American Pattern (PSA) and Antarctic Dipole Pattern (ADP); Sea ice cover changing spatially with season on month to month basis; Seasonal averages of sea ice extents and ice areas; Variability and trends of global sea ice cover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887233538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317145.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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