Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-821-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-821-2021
Research article
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18 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2021

Refining the sea surface identification approach for determining freeboards in the ICESat-2 sea ice products

Ron Kwok, Alek A. Petty, Marco Bagnardi, Nathan T. Kurtz, Glenn F. Cunningham, Alvaro Ivanoff, and Sahra Kacimi

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