Global Ice and Land Climate Studies Using Scatterometer Image Data

Authors

• David G. Long, Brigham Young UniversityFollow
• Mark Drinkwater, European Space Agency
• Benjamin Holt, California Institute of Technology
• Sassan Saatchi, California Institute of TechnologyFollow
• Cheryl Bertoia, U. S. National Ice Center

Date of this Version

2001

Comments

Published in EOS Transactions, AGU, 82(43), 503, 2001.

Abstract

Spaceborne scatterometers have provided continuous synoptic microwave coverage of the Earth for nearly a decade. Though these scatterometers were originally designed to measure oceanic surface winds, their data are also extremely useful in a broad range of ice and land applications, including the use of extensive scatterometer time series to determine seasonal and interannual variability and possible relationships to climate change. Under a NASA Earth Science Enterprise grant, the Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) project has produced non-ocean scatterometer imagery and data products that are now publicly available for the first time (http://www.scp.byu.edu/).