Empirical sea ice thickness retrieval during the freeze-up period from SMOS high incident angle observations

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 439-451

  Huntemann, M ^a   Heygster, G ^a   Kaleschke, L ^b   Krumpen, T ^c   Makynen M ^d   Drusch, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FREEZING; ICE THICKNESS; POLARIZATION; SEA ICE; SMOS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84901277147     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-439-2014     Document Type: Article

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