A spurious jump in the satellite record: Has Antarctic sea ice expansion been overestimated?

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1289-1296

  Eisenman, I ^a   Meier, W N ^b   Norris, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; ICE COVER; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84921882420     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-1289-2014     Document Type: Article

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