A nine-year climatology of arctic sea ice lead orientation and frequency from AMSR-E

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1451-1475

  Bröhan, David ^a   Kaleschke, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Lead orientation; Leads; Remote sensing; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894636592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6021451     Document Type: Article

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