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This paper presents: (1) a short historical review of the passive microwave research on sea ice which established the observational and theoretical base permitting the interpretation of the first passive microwave images of Earth obtained by the Nimbus-5 ESMR; (2) the construction of a time-lapse motion picture film of a 16-month set of serial ESMR images to aid in the formidable data analysis task; and (3) a few of the most significant findings resulting from an early analysis of these data, using selected ESMR images to illustrate these findings.
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Campbell, W.J., Ramseier, R.O., Zwally, H.J. et al. Arctic sea-ice variations from time-lapse passive microwave imagery. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 18, 99–106 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00117913
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