Extinction Behavior of Dry Snow in the 18- to 90-GHz Range

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-25, Issue 6, 1987, Pages 737-745

  Hallikainen, Martti T ^a   Ulaby, Fawwaz T ^b   Van Deventer, Tahera Emilie ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRY SNOW; EXTINCTION PROPERTIES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - ATTENUATION;

SNOW AND SNOWFALL;

EID: 0000526770     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1987.289743     Document Type: Article

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