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Microwave backscatter character of Antarctic snow cover observed with NSCAT on ADEOS. Proceedings of IGARSS`98. Seattle, WA, USA, 6-10 July 1998., 1998
(Ref: 9032)
Authors:Category 3: Abstract
Measurements of the microwave backscatter coefficient in the ku-band have been obtained over the Antarctic snow cover by the NSCAT wind scatterometer instrument on the ADEOS satellite from August 1996 to June 1997. The instrument has six antennas arranged with two directed forwards…
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Directional anisotropy of C- and ku-band microwave backscatter from the East Antarctic snow cover: differences and similarities. Proceedings of workshop on "Emerging scatterometer applications: from research to operations", ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 5-7 October 1998., 1998
(Ref: 9031)
Authors:Category 3: Abstract
Measurements of the microwave backscatter from the Antarctic ice sheet have been obtained by the single-sided, right-looking, C-band wind scatterometer carried by the ERS-1 and 2 satellites and by the dual-sided, ku-band NSCAT instrument on ADEOS.
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Interannual variability of Antarctic snow melt events derived from scatterometer data. Proceedings of IGARSS`98, Seattle, WA, USA. 6-10 July 1998, 1998
(Ref: 8555)
Authors:Category 3: Conference paper
Microwave backscatter from the Antarctic snow cover depends on the surface roughness, properties and structure within the snow cover, and moisture content. Small increases in moisture content produce a significant reduction in backscatter.
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Wind-induced directional anisotropy of microwave backscatter and its impact on imaging of the Antarctic snow cover Proceedings of IGARSS`98, Seattle, WA, USA. 6-10 July 1998, 1998
(Ref: 8554)
Authors:Category 3: Conference paper
The 500 km wide swath of the right-looking ERS wind scatterometer and the orbital geometry allows measurement of the microwave backscatter of all the Antarctic region north of latitude 79°S.
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Surface wind field over the Antarctic ice sheet mapped from satellite thermal infrared images. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006
(Ref: 12500)
Authors:Category 3: Poster
Thermal infrared images of the cloud-free surface of the Antarctic ice sheet exhibit subtle … stream-like features that can be traced over hundreds of kilometres. The stream features are … superimposed on other features in the temperature field related to the surface topography of … the ice sheet.