Anomalous variability in Antarctic sea ice extents during the 1960s with the use of Nimbus data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 881-887

  Gallaher, David W ^a   Campbell, G Garrett ^a   Meier, Walter N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic sea ice; Historic data; Nimbus

Indexed keywords

NASA;

ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; CLIMATE STUDIES; HISTORIC DATA; INFRARED IMAGERS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; NIMBUS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

SEA ICE;

HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; SEA ICE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84897109088     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2264391     Document Type: Article

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