Improving sea ice thickness estimates by assimilating CryoSat-2 and SMOS sea ice thickness data simultaneously

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 144, Issue 711, 2018, Pages 529-538

  Mu, Longjiang ^a   Yang, Qinghua ^a   Losch, Martin ^b   Losa, Svetlana N ^b,c   Ricker, Robert ^b   Nerger, Lars ^b   Liang, Xi ^a  

^a National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center   (China)

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

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic; CryoSat 2; data assimilation; ensemble Kalman filter; sea ice thickness; SMOS

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; GLACIERS; KALMAN FILTERS;

ARCTIC; CRYOSAT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SMOS;

SEA ICE;

EID: 85044402441     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.3225     Document Type: Article

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