Evaluating passive microwave radiometry for the dynamical transition from dry to wet snowpacks

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-15

  Kang, Do Hyuk ^a   Barros, Ana P ^b   Déry, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature (Tb); Liquid water content (LWC); Microwave signature; Snow model

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COLD LAND PROCESSES EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID WATER CONTENT; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER OBSERVATION; PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SNOW MODELS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; LIQUIDS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTION; SNOW; TEMPERATURE;

MICROWAVES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; EMISSION; HYDROLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOWPACK;

EID: 84890432013     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2234468     Document Type: Article

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