Impact of snow accumulation on CryoSat-2 range retrievals over Arctic sea ice: An observational approach with buoy data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4447-4455

  Ricker, Robert ^a   Hendricks, Stefan ^a   Perovich, Donald K ^b   Helm, Veit ^a   Gerdes, Rüdiger ^a  

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

^b Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

CryoSat 2; ice mass balance; radar altimetry; sea ice freeboard; sea ice thickness; snow depth

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE; SNOW;

CRYOSAT; ICE MASS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SNOW DEPTHS;

ICE;

CRYOSAT; DATA BUOY; DEPTH DETERMINATION; ICE THICKNESS; MASS BALANCE; MELTING; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; SEA ICE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84934436392     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064081     Document Type: Article

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