A Comprehensive Emission Model for Layered Inhomogeneous Medium with Application to Passive Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice Layers

Model Analysis and Correction of Firn Effect on Emission Features for Polar Ice Sheet Based on Comprehensive Layer Emission Model

“…Dongjin Bai* (1,2) , Xiaolong Dong (1,2) , Saibun Tjuatja (3) , Di Zhu (1) , and Zijin Zhang (1) (1) CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; e-mail: baidongjin17@mails.ucas.ac.cn; dongxiaolong@mirslab.cn; zhudi@mirslab.cn; zhangzijin@mirslab.cn (2) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;…”

“…In this paper, we perform model analysis of firn effect on ice sheet emission features for more general cases using Comprehensive Layer Emission Model (CLEM) [2]. Based on the scattering operator framework, CLEM can be used to directly determine the layer emission contribution and describe the firn effect on ice sheet emission with corresponding scattering operators and emission sources.…”