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LIMEX'87: international experiment in the Labrador Sea marginal ice zone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Mark. R. Drinkwater  and
Susan Digby Argus
Mark. R. Drinkwater
Affiliation:
Mail Stop 300–323, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109USA
Susan Digby Argus
Affiliation:
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing / Intera Technologies Ltd., 110 O'Connor Street, Ottawa, Ontario KIP 5M9Canada
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Abstract

Between 15 and 29 March 1987 the Labrador Ice Margin Experiment(LIMEX), a major international field experiment, took place in the Grand Banks region of the Labrador Sea, off the New found land coast. First in a series of experiments to be conducted at the southern ice margin during early spring, the period of maximum ice extent, LIMEX'87 addressed questions on physical properties of the environment and the role of remotely sensed data, particularly microwave data, in providing information for monitoring and forecasting air-sea-ice properties and dynamics.

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Polar Record , Volume 25 , Issue 155 , October 1989 , pp. 335 - 342
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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