Validation of SMOS sea ice thickness retrieval in the northern Baltic Sea

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Maaß, Nina ^a   Kaleschke, Lars ^a   Tian Kunze, Xiangshan ^a   Mäkynen, Marko ^b   Drusch, Matthias ^c   Krumpen, Thomas ^d   Hendricks, Stefan ^d   Lensu, Mikko ^b   Haapala, Jari ^b   Haas, Christian ^e  

^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)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baltic sea; Satellite remote sensing; Sea ice thickness

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ICE THICKNESS; MODEL VALIDATION; POLAR REGION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84930683494     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: 16000870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v67.24617     Document Type: Article

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