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We use a quasistatic model of the effective dielectric susceptibility for a statistically uniform layer of snow to describe both absorption of SHF radiation throughout the snow layer and the behavior of the imaginary part of ɛeff for snow. We find the model works well at frequencies f≤20 GHz. It is important to take into account the dynamical rather than the static polarizability of ice particles.
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V. I. Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 34, No. 8, pp. 859–862, August, 1991.
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Boyarskii, D.A., Dmitriev, V.V., Kliorin, N.I. et al. Modeling the extinction properties of dry snow cover. Radiophys Quantum Electron 34, 695–697 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01036972
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01036972