Snowpack properties in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, compared to Envisat ASAR and scatterometer measurements

• Main Authors: Rotschky, G., Rack, Wolfgang, Oerter, Hans
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Asar; Dronning Maud Land; Ekströmisen; Neumayer; Antarc*; Antarctica; EPICA; ice core; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/11429/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/11429/1/Rot2004e.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21883; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.21883.d001

The knowledge of snow pack properties and its temporal and spatialvariability is of importance for the interpretation of backscatteredsignals in the microwave region. For example, forthcoming radaraltimetric satellite missions, like ESA's CRYOSAT, aim at improvedmeasurements of both ice surface...