A New Method for Melt Detection on Antarctic Ice-Shelves and Scatterometer Calibration Verification

• Main Author: Kunz, Lukas Brad
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2004
• Subjects: QuikSCAT; SeaWinds; ADEOS-2; Antarctica; ice-shelves; melt detection; maximum likelihood; backscatter; scatterometer; calibration; diurnal variation; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Amery; Antarctic; Austral; Shackleton; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/174; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/etd/article/1173/viewcontent/ETD_CISOPTR_193.pdf

Ku-band dual-polarization radar backscatter measurements from the SeaWinds on QuikScat scatterometer and microwave radiometer measurements from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) are used to determine periods of surface melt and freeze in the Antarctic ice-shelves. The normalized radar back...