Arctic-Wide Operational Sea Ice Drift from Enhanced-Resolution QuikScat/SeaWinds Scatterometry and Its Validation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 102-107

  Haarpaintner, Jörg ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b Norut IT ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic region; remote sensing; scatterometry; sea ice; sea ice motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008063231     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.859352     Document Type: Article

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