Microwave emission observations from artificial thin sea ice: The ice-tank experiment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 325-338

  Shokr, Mohammed ^a   Asmus, Ken ^a   Agnew, Thomas A ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ice parameter retrieval; Microwave emission from ice and snow; Passive microwave; Sea ice; Thin ice

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ICE; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIATION; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

ARTIFICIAL THIN; CURRENT DATUMS; DRY SNOWS; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATIONS; ICE CONCENTRATIONS; ICE SURFACES; ICE THICKNESSES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS; MICROWAVE EMISSION FROM ICE AND SNOW; MICROWAVE RADIATIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; RADIATION FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY TO VARIATIONS; SNOW ACCUMULATIONS; SNOW DEPTHS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; SURFACE TYPES; SURFACE WETNESSES; THIN ICE; THREE CHANNELS; WET SNOWS; WET SURFACES; WINTER SEASONS;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SEA ICE; SNOW;

EID: 58149117514     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2005585     Document Type: Article

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