Inversion of Reflection and Scattering Data to Measure Sea Ice Thickness

The goals of this work are to develop and implement stable, mathematically sound methods to invert data on backscattering and reflection from sea ice at microwave frequencies to yield estimates of geophysically significant quantities such as thickness, the profile of brine volume vs. depth in the ic...

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Main Authors: Winebrenner, Dale P, Sylvester, John
Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE POLAR SCIENCE CENTER
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1997
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
Theoretical Mathematics
Optics
*INVERSION
*REFLECTION
*SCATTERING
*SEA ICE
DEPTH
MICROWAVE FREQUENCY
STABILITY
THICKNESS
BRINE VOLUME
BROADBAND SEA ICE REFLECTIVITY DATA
Ice
permafrost
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA627516
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA627516
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Summary:The goals of this work are to develop and implement stable, mathematically sound methods to invert data on backscattering and reflection from sea ice at microwave frequencies to yield estimates of geophysically significant quantities such as thickness, the profile of brine volume vs. depth in the ice, and snow properties. By stable methods, we mean methods that are robust in the presence of noise and experimental uncertainties. Prepared in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle.

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