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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Année : 2015

Modeling L-Band Brightness Temperature at Dome C in Antarctica and Comparison With SMOS Observations

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Two electromagnetic models were used to simulate snow emission at L-band from in situ measurements of snow properties collected at Dome C in Antarctica. Two different approaches were used: one based on the radiative transfer theory, and the other on the wave approach. The Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite observations performed at 1.4 GHz (21 cm) were used to check the validity of these models. Model results based on the wave approach were in good agreement with SMOS observations, particularly for incidence angles lower than 55 o. Comparisons suggest that the wave approach is more suitable to simulate brightness temperature at L-band than the transfer radiative theory, because interference between the layers of the snowpack is better taken into account. The model based on the wave approach was then used to investigate several L-band characteristics at Dome C. The emission e-folding depth, i.e. 67% of the signal, was estimated at 250 m, and 99% of signal emanated from the top 900 m. Lband brightness temperature is only slightly affected by seasonal variations in surface temperature, confirming the high temporal stability of snow emission at low frequency. Sensitivity tests showed that a good knowledge of density variability in snowpack is essential for accurate simulations in L-band.
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hal-03710814 , version 1 (01-07-2022)

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Marion Leduc-Leballeur, Ghislain Picard, Arnaud Mialon, Laurent Arnaud, Eric Lefebvre, et al.. Modeling L-Band Brightness Temperature at Dome C in Antarctica and Comparison With SMOS Observations. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2015, 53 (7), pp.4022-4032. ⟨10.1109/TGRS.2015.2388790⟩. ⟨hal-03710814⟩
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