Observed and modelled effects of ice lens formation on passive microwave brightness temperatures over snow covered tundra

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 116-126

  Rees, Andrew ^a   Lemmetyinen, Juha ^b   Derksen, Chris ^c   Pulliainen, Jouni ^b   English, Michael ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Passive microwave; Radiative transfer model; Snow water equivalent; Tundra

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CONTINUOUS LAYERS; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; EMISSION MODEL; FIELD CAMPAIGN; GROUND-BASED RADIOMETERS; HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; ICE LAYERS; LENS FORMATION; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MULTI FREQUENCY; NEW-ICE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RAIN-ON-SNOW; SATELLITE DATA; SECOND LAYER; SNOW PACKS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPACEBORNE DATA; TUNDRA; TWO LAYERS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; LANDFORMS; LENSES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SIMULATORS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ICE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SIMULATION; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TUNDRA;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 70350063671     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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