SMOS-derived thin sea ice thickness: Algorithm baseline, product specifications and initial verification

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 997-1018

  Tian Kunze, X ^a   Kaleschke, L ^a   Maass N ^a   Makynen M ^b   Serra, N ^a   Drusch, M ^c   Krumpen, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ICE THICKNESS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SOIL MOISTURE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84902286877     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-997-2014     Document Type: Article

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