Surface-based Ku- and Ka-band polarimetric radar for sea ice studies

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Stroeve, Julienne, Nandan, Vishnu, Willatt, Rosemary, Tonboe, Rasmus, Hendricks, Stefan, Ricker, Robert, Mead, James, Mallett, Robbie, Huntemann, Marcus, Itkin, Polona, Schneebeli, Martin, Krampe, Daniela, Spreen, Gunnar, Wilkinson, Jeremy, Matero, Ilkka, Hoppmann, Mario, Tsamados, Michel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53394/; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4405-2020; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.94a6b1ff-7e32-4db2-8297-03fcf13f5eb5

To improve our understanding of how snow properties influence sea ice thickness retrievals from presently operational and upcoming satellite radar altimeter missions, as well as to investigate the potential for combining dual frequencies to simultaneously map snow depth and sea ice thickness, a new,...