Microwave emission model of layered snowpacks

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 307-316

  Wiesmann, Andreas ^a   Mätzler, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY; RADIOMETERS; SNOW;

LAYERED SNOWPACKS; MICROWAVE EMISSION;

REMOTE SENSING;

MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOWPACK;

EID: 0342723782     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00046-2     Document Type: Article

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