On detection of the thermophysical state of landfast first-year sea ice using in-situ microwave emission during spring melt

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 148-159

  Hwang, Byong Jun ^a   Langlois, Alexandre ^a   Barber, David G ^a   Papakyriakou, Timothy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Melt onset; Microwave emission; Sea ice; Snow; Spring melt; SSM I; Thermophysical

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREEZING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; RADIATION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; MICROWAVE SIGNATURE; RADIATION FLUXES; SPRING MELT;

MICROWAVES;

BLOWING SNOW; BRINE; FREEZING; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MODEL VALIDATION; PERMITTIVITY; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; RAINSTORM; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPRING (SEASON); SSM-I;

EID: 35548970709     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.02.033     Document Type: Article

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