Comparison of local scale measured and modelled brightness temperatures and snow parameters from the CLPX 2003 by means of a dense medium radiative transfer theory model

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 657-672

  Tedesco, Marco ^a   Kim, Edward J ^b   Cline, Don ^c   Graf, Tobias ^d   Koike, Toshio ^d   Armstrong, Richard ^e   Brodzik, Mary J ^e   Hardy, Janet ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

CLPX; DMRT; Microwave remote sensing; Snow

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

DENSE MEDIUM MODELS; DENSE MEDIUM RADIATIVE TRANSFER (DMRT); MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS MEASUREMENET; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SNOW MICROWAVE RADIANCE MODELS; SNOW PIT MEASUREMENTS;

SNOW;

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SNOWFALL MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CRYOSPHERE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW;

EID: 33644884724     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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