Authors
DJ Cavalieri, JP Crawford, MR Drinkwater, DT Eppler, LD Farmer, RR Jentz, CC Wackerman
Publication date
1991/12/15
Journal
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Volume
96
Issue
C12
Pages
21989-22008
Description
During March 1988 a series of coordinated special sensor microwave imager (SSM/I) underflights were carried out with NASA and Navy aircraft over portions of the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi seas as part of the NASA Defense Meteorological Satellite Program SSM/I Sea Ice Validation Program. The two Navy research aircraft, a Naval Research Laboratory P‐3 with the NOARL Ka band radiometric mapping system operating at 33.6 GHz and a Naval Air Development Center (NADC) P‐3 with the NADC‐Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) C band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), provided wide‐swath, high‐resolution microwave imagery for direct comparison with sea ice concentrations calculated from SSM/I radiances using the NASA sea ice algorithm. Coincident measurements made with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) C band SAR and the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) aircraft …
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