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Aircraft and satellite passive microwave observations of the Bering Sea ice cover during MIZEX WestPassive microwave measurements of the Bering Sea were made with the NASA CV-990 airborne laboratory during February. Microwave data were obtained with imaging and dual-polarized, fixed-beam radiometers in a range of frequencies from 10 to 183 GHz. The high resolution imagery at 92 GHz provides a particularly good description of the marginal ice zone delineating regions of open water, ice compactness, and ice-edge structure. Analysis of the fixed-beam data shows that spectral differences increase with a decrease in ice thickness. Polarization at 18 and 37 GHz distinguishes among new, young, and first-year ice types.
Document ID
19860050945
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Cavalieri, D. J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Gloersen, P.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Wilheit, T. T., Jr.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 1986
Publication Information
Publication: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume: GE-24
ISSN: 0196-2892
Subject Category
Oceanography
Accession Number
86A35683
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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