Sea ice emissivities and effective temperatures at MHS frequencies: An analysis of airborne microwave data measured during two arctic campaigns

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1223-1237

  Harlow, R Chawn ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emission; millimeter wave radiometry; sea ice; snow; surfaces

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; EMISSION; EMISSIVITY SPECTRA; HUMIDITY SOUNDERS; LAMBERTIAN; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MICROWAVE DATA; MILLIMETER WAVE RADIOMETRY; POLAR REGIONS; SEA SURFACES; SNOW DEPTHS; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SVALBARD;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SNOW; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

EMISSIVITY; HUMIDITY; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SNOW; SNOWPACK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARROW; BEAUFORT SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; UNITED STATES;

LAMBERTIA;

EID: 79953230447     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2051555     Document Type: Article

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