Backscatter model for the unusual radar properties of the Greenland ice sheet
A number of planetary objects exhibit large radar reflectivity and polarization ratios, and more recently, a similar behavior has been observed over a vast portion of the Earth's surface: the percolation facies of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Surface-based ranging radar data and snow stratigraphy s...
| Published in: | Journal of Geophysical Research |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship, University of California
1995
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| Online Access: | http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1hd396sd |
| Summary: | A number of planetary objects exhibit large radar reflectivity and polarization ratios, and more recently, a similar behavior has been observed over a vast portion of the Earth's surface: the percolation facies of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Surface-based ranging radar data and snow stratigraphy studies demonstrated that the radar properties of that portion of Greenland are caused by enhanced scattering from massive, large, solid-ice bodies buried in the top few meters of the dry, cold, clean snowy surface of the ice sheet and created by seasonal melting and refreezing events. -from Author |
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