SMRT: an active–passive microwave radiative transfer model for snow with multiple microstructure and scattering formulations (v1.0)

Picard, Ghislain; Sandells, Melody; Löwe, Henning

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2763-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2763-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2763-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

Model description paper

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11 Jul 2018

Model description paper |

| 11 Jul 2018

SMRT: an active–passive microwave radiative transfer model for snow with multiple microstructure and scattering formulations (v1.0)

Ghislain Picard, Melody Sandells, and Henning Löwe

Model code and software

Snow Microwave radiative transfer model G. Picard, M. Sandells, and H. Löwe https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1249698

Short summary

The Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (SMRT) is a novel model developed to calculate how microwaves are scattered and emitted by snow. The model is built from separate, interconnecting modules to make it easy to compare different aspects of the theory. SMRT is the first model to allow a choice of how to represent the microstructure of the snow, which is extremely important, and has been used to unite multiple previous studies. This model will ultimately be used to observe snow from space.