Benefits of assimilating thin sea ice thickness from SMOS into the TOPAZ system

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2745-2761

  Xie, Jiping ^a   Counillon, François ^a   Bertino, Laurent ^a   Tian Kunze, Xiangshan ^b   Kaleschke, Lars ^b  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84996602340     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-2745-2016     Document Type: Article

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