Improved retrieval of land ice topography from CryoSat-2 data and its impact for volume-change estimation of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2953-2969

  Nilsson, Johan ^a   Gardner, Alex ^a   Sørensen, Louise Sandberg ^b   Forsberg, Rene ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; ANNUAL VARIATION; CRYOSAT; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLAS; HETEROGENEITY; ICE SHEET; ICESAT; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLUME CHANGE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 85002323059     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-2953-2016     Document Type: Article

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