Estimate of phase transition water content in freeze-thaw process using microwave radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4248-4255

  Zhang, Lixin ^a   Zhao, Tianjie ^a   Jiang, Lingmei ^a   Zhao, Shaojie ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning RadiometerEOS (AMSR E); freeze thaw process; microwave radiometer; phase transition water content (PTWC)

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FREEZE-THAW PROCESS; FREEZING/THAWING; FROZEN GROUND; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; GROUND SURFACES; GROUND TRUTH; GROUND-BASED RADIOMETERS; HEAT EXCHANGE; LAND-SURFACE PROCESS; MICROWAVE RADIATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE SCANNING; PHYSICAL MODEL; PORE WATERS; RANDOM SIMULATION; RAPID CHANGES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL PORES; SOIL SURFACES; STATISTICAL ALGORITHM; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; TRANSITION PROCESS; VERTICAL POLARIZATION; WATER-ICE PHASE TRANSITION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SCANNING; SOIL MOISTURE; SUN; THAWING; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; EMISSIVITY; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; HEAT TRANSFER; POREWATER; SOIL AIR; SOIL WATER; SOLAR RADIATION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 78649321071     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2051158     Document Type: Article

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