Development of a winter snow water equivalent algorithm using in situ passive microwave radiometry over snow-covered first-year sea ice

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-88

  Langlois, A ^a   Barber, D G ^a   Hwang, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; First year sea ice; Passive microwave; Snow thickness; Snow water equivalent; Surface based radiometer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; FIRST-YEAR SEA ICE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

SNOW;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845773313     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.07.018     Document Type: Article

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