Antarctic Ice Charts 1975-1976.

The advent of high resolution satellite imagery combined with the ground truth of conventional observations has only recently provided description of the polar ice fields on a semi-synoptic scale. Since 1970, the Fleet Weather Facility has prepared operational analyses of sea ice conditions in the A...

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Other Authors: FLEET WEATHER FACILITY SUITLAND MD
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1976
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*SEA ICE
*ANTARCTIC REGIONS
*LAND ICE
*PACK ICE
ICE FORMATION
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
CHARTS
OPTICAL SCANNING
AREA COVERAGE
RADIOMETRY
ICEBERGS
SCIENTIFIC SATELLITES
ICE OPENINGS
Ice shelves
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Ice
ice pack
Ice Shelves
Iceberg*
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA043354
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Summary:The advent of high resolution satellite imagery combined with the ground truth of conventional observations has only recently provided description of the polar ice fields on a semi-synoptic scale. Since 1970, the Fleet Weather Facility has prepared operational analyses of sea ice conditions in the Antarctic. The charts were constructed by Navy ice analysts under operational time constraints from satellite imagery and conventional data. Reanalysis with late data was not normally attempted; rather the current analysis was prepared incorporating this to the extent possible. The analysis was compared with available climatology in an attempt to eliminate gross errors.

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