An assessment of sea-ice thickness along the Labrador coast from AMSR-E and MODIS data for operational data assimilation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2726-2737

  Scott, K Andrea ^a   Buehner, Mark ^b   Carrieres, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Passive microwave; sea ice thickness; visible infrared

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SENSORS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; HEAT BALANCE EQUATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; VISIBLE/INFRARED;

DATA PROCESSING;

AMSR-E; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA ASSIMILATION; ICE THICKNESS; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE;

EID: 84896318401     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2265091     Document Type: Article

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