A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data

Cryosphere

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1607-1623

  Ricker, Robert ^a,b   Hendricks, Stefan ^a   Kaleschke, Lars ^c   Tian Kunze, Xiangshan ^c   King, Jennifer ^d   Haas, Christian ^a,e  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CRYOSAT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ICE THICKNESS; INTERPOLATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; SEA ICE; SMOS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; BEAUFORT SEA;

EID: 85022320796     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-11-1607-2017     Document Type: Article

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