Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
The Cryosphere, 16, 3861–3866, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3861-2022
The Cryosphere, 16, 3861–3866, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3861-2022
Brief communication
27 Sep 2022
Brief communication | 27 Sep 2022

Brief communication: A continuous formulation of microwave scattering from fresh snow to bubbly ice from first principles

Ghislain Picard et al.

Model code and software

Snow Microwave Radiatiave Transfer Ghislain Picard, Melody Sandells, and Henning Löwe https://github.com/smrt-model/smrt

smrt-model/smrt: v1.1.0 (v1.1.0) Ghislain Picard, Melody Sandells, and Henning Löwe https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7086080

smrt-model/strong_expansion_theory_paper: v1.0 (v1.0) Ghislain Picard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7086089

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Short summary
Microwave satellite observations used to monitor the cryosphere require radiative transfer models for their interpretation. These models represent how microwaves are scattered by snow and ice. However no existing theory is suitable for all types of snow and ice found on Earth. We adapted a recently published generic scattering theory to snow and show how it may improve the representation of snows with intermediate densities (~500 kg/m3) and/or with coarse grains at high microwave frequencies.