Improving passive microwave sea ice concentration algorithms for coastal areas: applications to the Baltic Sea

Nina Maaß; Lars Kaleschke

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2009.00452.x

Improving passive microwave sea ice concentration algorithms for coastal areas: applications to the Baltic Sea

Tellus

Volume 62 (2010): Issue 4

By: Nina Maaß and Lars Kaleschke

Open Access

|Jan 2010

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