Snow microwave emission modeling of ice lenses within a snowpack using the microwave emission model for layered snowpacks

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4705-4717

  Montpetit, Benoit ^a   Royer, Alain ^a   Roy, Alexandre ^a   Langlois, Alexandre ^a   Derksen, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; ice lens; in situ measurements; microwave emission model of layered snowpacks (MEMLS); microwave snow emission model; snow specific surface area

Indexed keywords

CANADA; EMISSION MODEL; ICE LENS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MICROWAVES; SNOW; TEMPERATURE;

ICE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; EMISSION; SNOW; SNOWPACK; SOIL EMISSION; SURFACE AREA; WINTER;

CANADA;

EID: 84883856598     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2250509     Document Type: Article

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