Year-round sea ice and snow characterization from combined passive and active microwave observations and radiative transfer modeling
Clément Soriot, Ghislain Picard, Catherine Prigent, Frédéric Frappart, Florent Dominé
Topics & Concepts
ScatterometerSea iceSnowSea ice thicknessRadiative transferSea ice concentrationRemote sensingMicrowaveAtmospheric radiative transfer codesEnvironmental scienceSatelliteRadiometerCryosphereSpecial sensor microwave/imagerGeologyCharacterization (materials science)ClimatologyBrightness temperatureOceanographyPhysicsWind speedGeomorphologyAstronomyOpticsQuantum mechanicsArctic and Antarctic ice dynamicsCryospheric studies and observationsClimate change and permafrost