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esa cryosat mission

🛰️❄️ New #CryoSat research ❄️🛰️ Satellite-based evidence of winter Ku-band radar scattering above the snow-ice interface, violating a key assumption in sea ice thickness retrievals 🌊❄️📊🤯

@carmenjulianab

et al. in

👉agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.102

Sea ice in Hudson Bay. Pixabay.

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Michel Tsamados

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@carmenjulianab

Great work from

@carmenjulianab

showing that Ku-band radar freeboard is sensitive to snowfall events on synoptic time scales. On longer time scales results seem more consistent with commonly accepted idea of a snow-ice main scattering horizon

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