The impact of melt ponds on summertime microwave brightness temperatures and sea-ice concentrations

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2217-2239

  Kern, Stefan ^a   Rösel, Anja ^b   Toudal Pedersen, Leif ^c   Ivanova, Natalia ^d   Saldo, Roberto ^e   Tage Tonboe, Rasmus ^c  

^a Center for Climate System Analysis and Prediction CliSAP   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; POND; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SUMMER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84966351859     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-2217-2016     Document Type: Article

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