A case study of using a multilayered thermodynamical snow model for radiance assimilation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2828-2837

  Toure, Ally M ^a   Goïta, Kalifa ^b   Royer, Alain ^b   Kim, Edward J ^a   Durand, Michael ^c   Margulis, Steven A ^d   Lu, Huizhong ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; melt refreeze crusts; radiance; snow; snowpack model (SM)

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; IN-SITU; MELT-REFREEZE CRUSTS; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE RADIANCES; MULTI-LAYERED; NUMBER OF STATE; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL STATE; RADIANCE; RADIANCE ASSIMILATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW MODELS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK MODEL; VERTICAL POLARIZATION;

POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

SNOW;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MELT; POLARIZATION; RADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOWPACK; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79960913485     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2118761     Document Type: Article

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