WindSat passive microwave polarimetric signatures of the greenland ice sheet

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2622-2631

  Li, Li ^a,b   Gaiser, Peter ^a,b   Albert, Mary R ^c   Long, David G ^a,d   Twarog, Elizabeth M ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenland ice sheet; Ice; Polarimetric microwave radiometry; Snow; WindSat

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; MODULATION; POLARIMETERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EFFECTS;

ANTARCTIC ICE; ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; AZIMUTHAL VARIATIONS; DRY SNOW; GREEN LAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OBSERVATION MODELS; OCEAN SURFACE WINDS; OCEAN SURFACES; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; POLARIMETRIC MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING; SPACE AND TIME; SPACE-BORNE; STOKES PARAMETERS; WIND VECTORS; WINDSAT;

POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 50449205288     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.917727     Document Type: Article

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