Paper Info
Title
The Cold Land Processes Experiment (Clpx-1): Analysis And Modelling Of Lsos Data (Iop3 Period)
Abstract
Microwave brightness temperatures at 18.7, 36.5, and 89 GHz collected at the Local-Scale Observation Site (LSOS) of the NASA Cold-Land Processes Field Experiment in February, 2003 (third Intensive Observation Period) were simulated using 11 Dense Media Radiative Transfer model (DMRT), based on the Quasi Crystalline Approximation with Coherent Potential (QCACP). Inputs to the model were averaged from LSOS snow pit measurements, although different averages were used for the lower frequencies vs. the highest one, due to the different penetration depths and to the stratigraphy of the snowpack. Mean snow particle radius was computed as a best-fit parameter. Results show that the model was able to reproduce satisfactorily brightness temperatures measured by the University of Tokyo's Ground Based Microwave Radiometer system (GBMR-7). The values of the best-fit snow particle radii were found to fall within the range of values obtained by averaging the field-measured mean particle sizes for the three classes of Small, Medium and Large grain sizes measured at the LSOS site.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1369931
IGARSS 2004: IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1-7: SCIENCE FOR SOCIETY: EXPLORING AND MANAGING A CHANGING PLANET
Keywords
Field
DocType
snow, microwave remote sensing, DMRT
Brightness temperature,Computer science,Remote sensing,Radius,Atmospheric radiative transfer codes,Radiative transfer,Snow,Brightness,Snowpack,Microwave radiometer
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
1
0.37
References 
Authors
1
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Tedesco1266.53
Edward J. Kim25611.61
Donald W. Cline38312.07
Tobias Graf420.75
Toshio Koike59732.47
Janet P. Hardy691.97
Richard Armstrong731.88
Mary J. Brodzik8365.78