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Investigations Of The Dry Snow Zone Of The Greenland Ice Sheet Using Quikscat, Kevin Randall Moon
Investigations Of The Dry Snow Zone Of The Greenland Ice Sheet Using Quikscat, Kevin Randall Moon
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The Greenland ice sheet is an area of great interest to the scientific community due to its role as an important bellwether for the global climate. Satellite-borne scatterometers are particularly well-suited to studying temporal changes in the Greenland ice sheet because of their high spatial coverage, frequent sampling, and sensitivity to the presence of liquid water. The dry snow zone is the largest component of the Greenland ice sheet and is identified as the region that experiences negligible annual melt. Due to the lack of melt in the dry snow zone, backscatter was previously assumed to be relatively constant over …
Extending The Quikscat Data Record With The Oceansat-2 Scatterometer, Joshua P. Bradley
Extending The Quikscat Data Record With The Oceansat-2 Scatterometer, Joshua P. Bradley
Theses and Dissertations
Originally designed for wind velocity estimation over the ocean, scatterometers have since been applied to climate studies of the Earth's cryosphere and bioshere. As an integral part of climatological studies of the planet, the NASA Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) supplies scatterometer-based products designed to aid researchers in climatological studies of the planet. In this thesis, necessary steps are taken to facilitate data from the Oceansat-2 Ku-band scatterometer (OSCAT) to be used in extending the Ku-band SCP dataset of conically scanning pencil-beam scatterometers begun by the Seawinds scatterometer flown on the QuikSCAT mission 1999-2009. As a standard SCP product, a …