Brightness Temperature Simulations of the Canadian Seasonal Snowpack Driven by Measurements of the Snow Specific Surface Area

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  2013

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  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

• Publication date

  2013-03-07

• Fields of study

  Physics, Computer Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2235842
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