Radar backscatter cross-sections and ice characterization for May 1977 Point Barrow experiment
Abstract
Radar backscatter measurements were made of shorefast sea ice and fresh water ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, in May 1977 with a transportable microwave spectrometer, TRAMAS, that swept from 1-2 GHz and 8-18 GHz, viewed angles from 10 to 70 deg from nadir, and had antenna transmit-receive polarizations of vertical-vertical, horizontal-horizontal, vertical-horizontal, and horizontal-vertical. Thick first-year sea ice, multiyear sea ice, a small first-year pressure-ridge, and fresh water lake ice were investigated. Included herein are the radar backscatter cross-sections and ice characterization data.
- Publication:
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Final Data Report Kansas Univ
- Pub Date:
- February 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983kans.rept.....O
- Keywords:
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- Alaska;
- Lake Ice;
- Sea Ice;
- Backscattering;
- Radar Cross Sections;
- Radar Scattering;
- Tables (Data);
- Communications and Radar