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Microwave signatures of snow and fresh water ice
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Gloersen, P. Schmugge, T. Frank, D. Wilheit, T. T. Meier, M. F. Dirmhirn, I. |
| Copyright Year | 1973 |
| Description | During March of 1971, the NASA Convair 990 Airborne Observatory carrying microwave radiometers in the wavelength range 0.8 to 21 cm was flown over dry snow with different substrata: Lake ice at Bear Lake in Utah; wet soil in the Yampa River Valley near Steamboat Springs, Colorado; and glacier ice, firm and wet snow on the South Cascade Glacier in Washington. The data presented indicate that the transparency of the snow cover is a function of wavelength. False-color images of microwave brightness temperatures obtained from a scanning radiometer operating at a wavelength of 1.55 cm demonstrate the capability of scanning radiometers for mapping snowfields. |
| File Size | 941240 |
| Page Count | 15 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19740002268 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t15n1069k |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1973-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Microwave Radiometers Microwave Signatures Colorado Ice Mapping Spectral Signatures Lakes Glaciers Microwave Spectra Snow Cover Utah Washington Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
