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Monitoring The Antarctic Ice Sheet From Space, Benjamin Rule Lambert
Monitoring The Antarctic Ice Sheet From Space, Benjamin Rule Lambert
Theses and Dissertations
The Antarctic ice sheet is a geophysically - and in an age of growing concern about global warming, geopolitically - important portion of Earth. The composition and dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet influence global climate patterns, global sea level and the planet's radiation budget. Recent evidence also suggests that the long term stability of portions of the ice sheet may be in jeopardy. In this thesis I use data from three Ku-band space-borne scatterometers to monitor changes in the backscatter signature of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1978 through 2007. Significant changes in backscatter, which result from geophysical changes …
Wind/Rain Backscatter Modeling And Wind/Rain Retrieval For Scatterometer And Synthetic Aperture Radar, Congling Nie
Wind/Rain Backscatter Modeling And Wind/Rain Retrieval For Scatterometer And Synthetic Aperture Radar, Congling Nie
Theses and Dissertations
Using co-located space-borne satellite (TRMM PR, ESCAT on ERS 1/2) measurements, and numerical predicted wind fields (ECMWF), the sensitivity of C-band backscatter measurement to rain is evaluated. It is demonstrated that C-band radar backscatter can be significantly altered by rain surface perturbation, an effect that has been previously neglected. A low-order wind/rain backscatter model is developed that has inputs of surface rain rate, incidence angle, wind speed, wind direction, and azimuth angle. The wind/rain backscatter model is accurate enough for describing the total backscatter in raining areas with relatively low variance. Rain has a more significant impact on measurements at …