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Sea Ice Albedo

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  1. USACE Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, USA

    Donald Perovich

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  1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

    Eni G. Njoku

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Perovich, D. (2014). Sea Ice Albedo. In: Njoku, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36699-9_29

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