350 JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY VOLUME 43 Infrared Radiative Properties of the Antarctic Plateau from AVHRR Data. Part I: Effect of the

• Main Authors: Snow Surface, Joannes Berque, Dan Lubin, Richard C. J. Somerville
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Antarctic; Sastrugi; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.381.8768; http://spsp.ucsd.edu/Researchers/Dan_Lubin/pdfs/03berque_jam.pdf

The effective scene temperature, or ‘‘brightness temperature,’ ’ measured in channel 3 (3.5–3.9 �m) of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) is shown to be sensitive, in principle, to the effective particle size of snow grains on the Antarctic plateau, over the range of snow grain siz...