Rapid change of snow surface properties at Vostok, East Antarctica, revealed by altimetry and radiometry

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2633-2641

  Lacroix, P ^a,b   Legresy, B ^a   Remy, F ^a   Blarel, F ^a   Picard, G ^c   Brucker, L ^c  

^a Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Ice sheets; Mass balance; Microwave; Radiometry; Snow surface properties

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; ANOMALOUS WINDS; ANTARCTICA; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; DUAL-FREQUENCY ALTIMETERS; ENVISAT; ICE-SHEETS; INTERANNUAL; KU BAND; MASS-BALANCE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; PARTICULAR CONDITION; RADIOMETRIC DATA; RAPID CHANGES; SHAPE CORRECTION; SHAPE VARIATIONS; STRONG WINDS; SURFACE DENSITY;

FREQUENCY BANDS; ICE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SNOW; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIME SERIES; TRACE ANALYSIS;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ALTIMETRY; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; SNOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIME SERIES;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; LAKE VOSTOK;

EID: 70349972149     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.07.019     Document Type: Article

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