Millimeter microwave emissivities and effective temperatures of snow-covered surfaces: Evidence for lambertian surface scattering

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1957-1970

  Harlow, R Chawn ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emission; Millimeter wave radiometry; Sea ice; Snow; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DATA; COLD LAND PROCESSES EXPERIMENTS; DIFFUSE SCATTERING; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; EMISSION; FLIGHT DATA; GHZ FREQUENCIES; LAMBERTIAN SCATTERING; LAMBERTIAN SURFACES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE SOUNDING; MILLIMETER MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVE RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SOUNDING; SEA SURFACES; SECOND PHASE; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; SURFACE COMPONENTS; SURFACE EMISSIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; SCATTERING; SEA ICE; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; EMISSIVITY; HUMIDITY; MAS; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOW COVER; TROPOSPHERE;

LAMBERTIA;

EID: 67651183636     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2011893     Document Type: Article

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