Near-real-time Arctic sea ice thickness and volume from CryoSat-2

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2003-2012

  Tilling, Rachel L ^a   Ridout, Andy ^a   Shepherd, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOSAT; DATA SET; GROWTH RATE; ICE THICKNESS; REAL TIME; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84986634308     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-2003-2016     Document Type: Article

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