Snow-cover environmental monitoring and assessment in Northeast China using passive microwave emission models.
In this study, we present the application of the passive microwave emission models to snow-cover environment monitoring and assessment in Northeast China. The study employs the radiative transfer function and strong fluctuation theory to develop the models. We used the exponential form of a spherical symmetric correlation function to describe random permittivity fluctuations. From strong fluctuation, we then obtained the phase matrix and extinction coefficients of snow-packs for the spherical symmetric correlation function. We also used the vector radiative transfer formula for the layer of a random medium by solving Gaussian quadrature and eigen analysis. By comparing the brightness temperatures at 5, 10.7, 18, and 37 GHz, the modelling results agreed with experimental data of dry-snow physical parameters as measured in the fieldwork.
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, Weishan Road 3195, Changchun 130012, China.
Kaishan
K
Song
Yuanzhi
Y
Zhang
D002681:China; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D008872:Microwaves; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012914:Snow