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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1551-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1551-2015
Research article
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12 Aug 2015
Research article |  | 12 Aug 2015

Melt pond fraction and spectral sea ice albedo retrieval from MERIS data – Part 1: Validation against in situ, aerial, and ship cruise data

L. Istomina, G. Heygster, M. Huntemann, P. Schwarz, G. Birnbaum, R. Scharien, C. Polashenski, D. Perovich, E. Zege, A. Malinka, A. Prikhach, and I. Katsev

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