The effects of layers in dry snow on its passive microwave emissions using dense media radiative transfer theory based on the quasicrystalline approximation (QCA/DMRT)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3663-3671

  Liang, Ding ^a   Xu, Xiaolan ^a   Tsang, Leung ^a   Andreadis, Konstantinos M ^a   Josberger, Edward G ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense media; Dense media radiative transfer (DMRT) theory; Layered media; Microwave remote sensing; Snow

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ASTROPHYSICS; GEOPHYSICS; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; TERBIUM ALLOYS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COLD LAND PROCESSES FIELD EXPERIMENTS; DENSE MEDIA; DENSE MEDIA RADIATIVE TRANSFER (DMRT) THEORY; DENSE MEDIAS; DRY SNOWS; FOUR CHANNELS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES; GREATER ACCURACIES; LAYERED MEDIA; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MIE SCATTERINGS; MODEL ACCOUNTS; MULTI-LAYER MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCES; POLARIZATION DIFFERENCES; QUASICRYSTALLINE APPROXIMATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORIES; SCATTERING MODELS; SINGLE LAYERS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTIONS; WATER EQUIVALENTS;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 56849114506     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.922143     Document Type: Article

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