Sensing snow height and surface temperature variations in Greenland from GPS reflected signals

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1623-1633

  Jin, Shuanggen ^a   Najibi, Nasser ^a,b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

GPS L4; Nonparametric bootstrapping model; Snow height; Snow surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

BOOTSTRAPPING MODEL; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; SNOW SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMOPHYSICAL BEHAVIOR;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84899645825     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: 18791948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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