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Snow-cover environmental monitoring and assessment in Northeast China using passive microwave emission models

Environ Monit Assess. 2008 May;140(1-3):223-9. doi: 10.1007/s10661-007-9862-4. Epub 2007 Aug 2.

Abstract

In this study, we present the application of the passive microwave emission models to snow-cover environment monitoring and assessment in Northeast China. The study employs the radiative transfer function and strong fluctuation theory to develop the models. We used the exponential form of a spherical symmetric correlation function to describe random permittivity fluctuations. From strong fluctuation, we then obtained the phase matrix and extinction coefficients of snow-packs for the spherical symmetric correlation function. We also used the vector radiative transfer formula for the layer of a random medium by solving Gaussian quadrature and eigen analysis. By comparing the brightness temperatures at 5, 10.7, 18, and 37 GHz, the modelling results agreed with experimental data of dry-snow physical parameters as measured in the fieldwork.

MeSH terms

  • China
  • Environmental Monitoring / methods*
  • Microwaves
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Snow*