Coupling the snow thermodynamic model SNOWPACK with the microwave emission model of layered snowpacks for subarctic and arctic snow water equivalent retrievals

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Langlois, A ^a   Royer, A ^a   Derksen, C ^b   Montpetit, B ^a   Dupont, F ^c   Gota, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC SNOW; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; DATA SETS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FIELD MEASUREMENT; ITERATION METHOD; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MULTI-LAYERED; NORTHERN REGIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SNOW GRAIN SIZE; SNOW MODELS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUCCESSIVE ITERATION; SURFACE HETEROGENEITIES; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

SNOW;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; SNOWPACK; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84871538169     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012133     Document Type: Article

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