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Validation of SMOS sea ice thickness retrieval in the northern Baltic Sea Cover

Validation of SMOS sea ice thickness retrieval in the northern Baltic Sea

Tellus
Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1
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|Dec 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v67.24617 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 24617 - 24617
Submitted on: Apr 14, 2014
Accepted on: Dec 23, 2014
Published on: Dec 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
sea ice thickness,
satellite remote sensing,
Baltic Sea

© 2015 Nina Maaß, Lars Kaleschke, Xiangshan Tian–Kunze, Marko Mäkynen, Matthias Drusch, Thomas Krumpen, Stefan Hendricks, Mikko Lensu, Jari Haapala, Christian Haas, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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