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Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2859-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2859-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 7
Research article
 | 
19 Jul 2022
Research article |  | 19 Jul 2022

Coherent backscatter enhancement in bistatic Ku- and X-band radar observations of dry snow

Marcel Stefko, Silvan Leinss, Othmar Frey, and Irena Hajnsek

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2859-2022-supplement

Data sets

Coherent backscatter enhancement in bistatic Ku-/X-band radar observations of dry snow – dataset Marcel Stefko https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000516171

TanDEM-X Science Service System DLR https://tandemx-science.dlr.de/

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Short summary
The coherent backscatter opposition effect can enhance the intensity of radar backscatter from dry snow by up to a factor of 2. Despite widespread use of radar backscatter data by snow scientists, this effect has received notably little attention. For the first time, we characterize this effect for the Earth's snow cover with bistatic radar experiments from ground and from space. We are also able to retrieve scattering and absorbing lengths of snow at Ku- and X-band frequencies.
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