SMOS sea ice product: Operational application and validation in the Barents Sea marginal ice zone

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 180, Issue , 2016, Pages 264-273

  Kaleschke, Lars ^a   Tian Kunze, Xiangshan ^a   Maaß, Nina ^a   Beitsch, Alexander ^a,b   Wernecke, Andreas ^a   Miernecki, Maciej ^a   Müller, Gerd ^a   Fock, Björn H ^a,c   Gierisch, Andrea M U ^a,d   Schlünzen, K Heinke ^a   Pohlmann, Thomas ^a   Dobrynin, Mikhail ^a   Hendricks, Stefan ^e   Asseng, Jölund ^e   Gerdes, Rüdiger ^e,g   Jochmann, Peter ^f   Reimer, Nils ^f   Holfort, Jürgen ^h   Melsheimer, Christian ⁱ   Heygster, Georg ⁱ   Spreen, Gunnar ^i,j   Gerland, Sebastian ^j   King, Jennifer ^j   Skou, Niels ^k   Søbjærg, Sten Schmidl ^k   Haas, Christian ^l   Richter, Friedrich ^m   Casal, Tânia ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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

^f Hamburgische Schiffbau Versuchsanstalt (HSVA)   (Germany)

^g JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^h Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^j NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^k TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^l YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^m EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Airborne laser scanner; Arctic; Electromagnetic induction; L Band radiometry; Retrieval model validation; Sea ice; Sea ice forecast; Sea ice thickness; Ship routing; Soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) mission

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FORECASTING; HELICOPTERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LUMINANCE; MOISTURE; RADIOMETRY; SCANNING; SEA ICE; SHIPS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNERS; ARCTIC; ICE FORECASTS; L-BAND RADIOMETRY; RETRIEVAL MODELS; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS;

ICE;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FORECASTING METHOD; ICE THICKNESS; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIOMETER; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SATELLITE MISSION; SEA ICE; SHIP DESIGN; SMOS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 84977961841     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.03.009     Document Type: Article

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