Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-539-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-539-2020
Research article
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11 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 11 Feb 2020

Melt in Antarctica derived from Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) observations at L band

Marion Leduc-Leballeur, Ghislain Picard, Giovanni Macelloni, Arnaud Mialon, and Yann H. Kerr

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To study the coast and ice shelves affected by melt in Antarctica during the austral summer, we exploited the 1.4 GHz radiometric satellite observations. We showed that this frequency provides additional information on melt occurrence and on the location of the water in the snowpack compared to the 19 GHz observations. This opens an avenue for improving the melting season monitoring with a combination of both frequencies and exploring the possibility of deep-water detection in the snowpack.