The role of snow on the thermal dependence of microwave backscatter over sea ice

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C11, 1999, Pages 25789-25803

  Barber, David G ^a   Nghiem, Son V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033571820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900181     Document Type: Article

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