Snow thickness retrieval over thick Arctic sea ice using SMOS satellite data

Cryosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1971-1989

  Maass N ^a   Kaleschke, L ^a   Tian Kunze, X ^a   Drusch, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CRYOSPHERE; DATA SET; ICE THICKNESS; INSULATION; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SMOS; SNOW COVER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84890936172     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-7-1971-2013     Document Type: Article

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