Anisotropy of seasonal snow measured by polarimetric phase differences in radar time series

Leinss, Silvan; Löwe, Henning; Proksch, Martin; Lemmetyinen, Juha; Wiesmann, Andreas; Hajnsek, Irena

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1771-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1771-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1771-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 4

Research article

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17 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 17 Aug 2016

Anisotropy of seasonal snow measured by polarimetric phase differences in radar time series

Silvan Leinss, Henning Löwe, Martin Proksch, Juha Lemmetyinen, Andreas Wiesmann, and Irena Hajnsek

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RC C2585: 'Review of Leinss et al.: Anisotropy of Seasonal Snow measured by Polarimetric Phase Differences in Radar Time Series', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Dec 2015
- AC C3350: 'final author comments.', Silvan Leinss, 11 Apr 2016
RC C3301: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Mar 2016
- AC C3381: 'Answer to the Reviewer comments', Silvan Leinss, 11 Apr 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Silvan Leinss on behalf of the Authors (09 May 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 May 2016) by Guillaume Chambon

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (07 Jun 2016)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (07 Jun 2016) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Silvan Leinss on behalf of the Authors (18 Jun 2016) Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (21 Jun 2016) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Silvan Leinss on behalf of the Authors (01 Jul 2016) Manuscript

Short summary

Four years of anisotropy measurements of seasonal snow are presented in the paper. The anisotropy was measured every 4 h with a ground-based polarimetric radar. An electromagnetic model has been developed to measured the anisotropy with radar instruments from ground and from space. The anisotropic permittivity was derived with Maxwell–Garnett-type mixing formulas which are shown to be equivalent to series expansions of the permittivity tensor based on spatial correlation function of snow.