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Microwave radiometry of the snow cover and frozen soil at a frequency of 3.95 GHZ

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The influence of stratigraphy of the snow cover on its radio-brightness temperature in the centimeter interval of the microwave range is considered. It is shown that the observed angular distributions of radio-brightness temperature are related to the structural variations of the snow cover. The possibility of developing a method for remote monitoring of the internal layers of the snow cover is discussed for the purpose of predicting avalanche hazard in mountains.

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Institute of Space Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 1050–1059, August, 1997.

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Boyarskii, D.A. Microwave radiometry of the snow cover and frozen soil at a frequency of 3.95 GHZ. Radiophys Quantum Electron 40, 705–711 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02676494

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