Estimation of sea-ice thickness in Ross and Weddell Seas from SSM/I brightness temperatures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4122-4140

  Aulicino, Giuseppe ^a   Fusco, Giannetta ^a   Kern, Stefan ^b   Budillon, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; gradient and polarization ratios; Ross Sea; sea ice thickness (SIT); snow depth; Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM I); Weddell Sea

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; SEA ICE; SENSORS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; POLARIZATION RATIOS; ROSS SEA; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SNOW DEPTHS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER; WEDDELL SEA;

ESTIMATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; ICE THICKNESS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; POLAR REGION; POLYNYA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84896387834     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2279799     Document Type: Article

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