NASA team 2 sea ice concentration algorithm retrieval uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7336-7352

  Brucker, Ludovic ^a,b   Cavalieri, Donald J ^a,c   Markus, Thorsten ^a   Ivanoff, Alvaro ^a,d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c ADNET Systems Inc ^*

^d ADNET SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement uncertainty; passive microwave remote sensing; sea ice

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NASA; OCEAN CURRENTS; REACTOR CORES; SEA ICE; SENSORS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CONTRIBUTIONS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; RETRIEVAL UNCERTAINTY; SATELLITE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ICE COVER; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SNOWPACK; TIMESCALE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902084233     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2311376     Document Type: Article

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