Microwave signatures of snow on sea ice: Modeling

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3091-3100

  Powell, Dylan C ^b,c   Markus, Thorsten ^a,d   Cavalieri, Donald J ^a,d   Gasiewski, Albin J ^a,e   Klein, Marian ^a,f   Maslanik, James A ^e   Stroeve, Julienne C ^g   Sturm, Mathew ^h  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UCB 450   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR); Microwave; Modeling; Polar regions; Remote sensing; Sea ice; Snow

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER (AMSR); ALGORITHM COEFFICIENTS; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODEL OF LAYERED SNOWPACKS (MEMLS); POLAR REGIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW;

SEA ICE;

EID: 33750826011     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.882139     Document Type: Article

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