Snow water equivalent retrieval in a Canadian Boreal environment from microwave measurements using the HUT snow emission model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1850-1859

  Roy, Vincent ^a,b   Goïta, Kalifa ^a   Royer, Alain ^a   Walker, Anne E ^c   Goodison, Barry E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study (BOREAS); Boreal forest; Microwave radiometry; Snow emission model; Snow water equivalent (SWE)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; SENSORS; SNOW; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BOREAL ECOSYSTEM-ATMOSPHERE STUDY (BOREAS); MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SNOW EMISSION MODELS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT (SWE);

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 4744363402     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.832245     Document Type: Article

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