CryoSat-2 delivers monthly and inter-annual surface elevation change for Arctic ice caps

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1895-1913

  Gray, L ^a   Burgess, D ^b   Copland, L ^a   Demuth, M N ^b   Dunse, T ^c   Langley, K ^c   Schuler, T V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BACKSCATTER; CRYOSAT; ELEVATION; ICE CAP; RADAR; SNOW ACCUMULATION; TIMESCALE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; AUSTFONNA; BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; DEVON ICE CAP; NORDAUSTLANDET; NUNAVUT; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84942570048     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-1895-2015     Document Type: Article

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