Infrared radiative properties of the Antarctic plateau from AVHRR data. Part I: Effect of the snow surface

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 350-362

  Berque, Joannes ^a   Lubin, Dan ^a   Somerville, Richard C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; CRYSTALS; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETERS; SCATTERING; SNOW;

ABSORBING SNOWPACK; SNOW GRAINS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AVHRR; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; NOAA SATELLITE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 1842865107     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2004)043<0350:IRPOTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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