The impact of geophysical corrections on sea-ice freeboard retrieved from satellite altimetry

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Ricker, Robert ^a   Hendricks, Stefan ^a   Beckers, Justin F ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic sea ice; CryoSat 2; Radar altimetry; Remote sensing; Sea ice thickness

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GEOPHYSICS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS; WATER LEVELS;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; CRYOSAT; GEOPHYSICAL CORRECTIONS; HYDROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM; ICE SURFACE ELEVATION; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE THICKNESS AND VOLUMES; SEA-ICE THICKNESS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 84971595597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8040317     Document Type: Article

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