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SNOW PROPERTIES AND TWO CHANNEL MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS
by
K. TSUCHIYA
S. YAMAMOTO
C. ISHIDA
National Space Development Agency of Japan
(Tokyo Japan)
K. TAKEDA
Y. YAJIMA
Science and Technology Agency
(Tokyo, Japan)
Abstract
Two channel scanning microwave radiometer (23.8 GHz and 31.4 GHz)
will be installed in Japanese Marine Observation Satellite (MOS) - 1
to be launched in 1987. In an attempt to find out the feasibility of
snow property observation with this radiometer an observation was
made for the consecutive 10 days in January 1982 at the test site of
Hokkaido University.
Radiance temperature was measured both in vertical and horizontal
polarization over the test site for various depth of snow, i. e. 5 cm
interval up to 30 cm depth and 20 cm interval in the range between 60
and 120 cm depth. In reference with very detailed in situ information
of snow properties and meteorological condition it is expected that
interesting results can be obtained.
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