Antarctic Snowmelt Detected by Diurnal Variations of AMSR-E Brightness Temperature

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Lei Zheng, Chunxia Zhou, Ruixi Liu, Qizhen Sun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018
• Subjects: Antarctica; snowmelt; AMSR-E; MEMLS; Science; Q; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Shackleton; Shackleton Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10091391; https://doaj.org/article/8c0ae060162749e59f856da56500872f

Antarctic surface snowmelt is sensitive to the polar climate. The ascending and descending passes of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing System Sensor (AMSR-E) observed the Antarctic ice sheet in the afternoon (the warmest period) and at midnight (a cold period), enabling...