Inversion of Reflection and Scattering Data to Measure Sea Ice Thickness

• 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

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.