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Articles | Volume 16, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-5061-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-5061-2022
Research article
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21 Dec 2022
Research article |  | 21 Dec 2022

The sensitivity of satellite microwave observations to liquid water in the Antarctic snowpack

Ghislain Picard, Marion Leduc-Leballeur, Alison F. Banwell, Ludovic Brucker, and Giovanni Macelloni

Data sets

AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L3 Daily 12.5 km Brightness Temperatures, Sea Ice Concentration, Motion & Snow Depth Polar Grids W. N. Meier, T. Markus, and J. C. Comiso https://doi.org/10.5067/RA1MIJOYPK3P

Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica (https://secure.antarctica.ac.uk/data/bedmap2) P. Fretwell, H. D. Pritchard, D. G. Vaughan, et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-375-2013

The global SMOS Level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness temperature maps (https://data.catds.fr/cpdc/Common_products/GRIDDED/L3/RE07/MIR_CDF3TS/) Ahmad Al Bitar, Arnaud Mialon, Yann H. Kerr, François Cabot, Philippe Richaume, Elsa Jacquette, Arnaud Quesney, Ali Mahmoodi, Stéphane Tarot, Marie Parrens, Amen Al-Yaari, Thierry Pellarin, Nemesio Rodriguez-Fernandez, and Jean-Pierre Wigneron https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-293-2017

Surface melting observations in Antarctica by microwave radiometers: Correcting 26-year time series from changes in acquisition hours (https://snow.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/melting/) G. Picard and M. Fily https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2006.05.010

Model code and software

smrt-model/smrt_liquid_water_paper: Initial release Ghislain Picard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7302799

smrt-model/smrt: v1.1.0 G. Picard, M. Sandells, and H. Löwe https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7086080

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Using a snowpack radiative transfer model, we investigate in which conditions meltwater can be...
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