Dynamic approaches for snow depth retrieval from spaceborne microwave brightness temperature

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1955-1967

  Tedesco, Marco ^a   Reichle, Rolf ^b   Löw, Alexander ^c   Markus, Thorsten ^b   Foster, James L ^b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microwave; Remote sensing; Snow

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DYNAMIC COEFFICIENT; EFFECTIVE GRAIN SIZE; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL MODELING; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SNOW DEPTHS; SPACE-BORNE; SPACEBORNE DATA; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; SURFACE METEOROLOGICAL DATA; TIME AVERAGES;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE;

MODELS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LINEARITY; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW;

EID: 78649247335     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2036910     Document Type: Article

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