Snow depth of the Weddell and Bellingshausen sea ice covers from IceBridge surveys in 2010 and 2011: An examination

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4141-4167

  Kwok, R ^a   Maksym, T ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bellingshausen; sea ice; snow depth; Weddell Sea

Indexed keywords

IMPULSE RESPONSE; RADAR SYSTEMS; SEA ICE; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURVEYS;

ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; BELLINGSHAUSEN; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RETRIEVAL PROCEDURES; SAMPLE POPULATION; SEA-ICE COVER; SNOW DEPTHS; WEDDELL SEA;

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ICE COVER; ICE MOVEMENT; ICE THICKNESS; SAMPLING; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER;

BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84906097367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC009943     Document Type: Review

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