Snow melt on sea ice surfaces as determined from passive microwave satellite data

• Main Author: Anderson, Mark R.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: 43; Arctic; Chukchi Sea; East Siberian Sea; Laptev Sea; Chukchi; laptev; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19880051464

SMMR data for the year 1979, 1980 and 1984 have been analyzed to determine the variability in the onset of melt for the Arctic seasonal sea ice zone. The results show melt commencing in either the Kara/Barents Seas or Chukchi Sea and progressing zonally towards the central Asian coast (Laptev Sea)....