SMRT documents

Publications

• Reference SMRT paper (Picard et al., 2018)

• Reference SMRT altimetry paper (Larue et al., 2021)

• Effect of snow microstructure variability on Ku-band radar snow water equivalent retrievals (Rutter et al., 2019)

• Arctic and subarctic snow microstructure analysis for microwave brightness temperature simulations (Vargel et al., 2020)

• Penetration of interferometric radar signals in Antarctic snow (Rott et al., 2021)

• Characterizing tundra snow sub-pixel variability to improve brightness temperature estimation in satellite SWE retrievals (Meloche et al., 2022)

• Investigating the Effect of Lake Ice Properties on Multifrequency Backscatter Using the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer Model (Murfitt et al., 2022)

• X-Ray Tomography-Based Microstructure Representation in the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer Model (Sandells et al., 2022)

• The sensitivity of satellite microwave observations to liquid water in the Antarctic snowpack (Picard et al., 2022)

• Brief communication: A continuous formulation of microwave scattering from fresh snow to bubbly ice from first principles (Picard et al., 2022)

• Year-round sea ice and snow characterization from combined passive and active microwave observations and radiative transfer modeling (Soriot et al., 2022)

• The Microwave Snow Grain Size: A New Concept to Predict Satellite Observations Over Snow-Covered Regions (Picard et al., 2022)

• Remote Sensing of Surface Melt on Antarctica: Opportunities and Challenges (de Roda Husman et al., 2022)

• Evaluation and Application of SMRT Model for L-Band Brightness Temperature Simulation in Arctic Sea Ice (Fan et al., 2023)

Presentations

Downloadable SMRT presentations from the 3rd SMRT workshop (6-8 July 2023, Bremerhaven, Germany):

• Introduction to SMRT and microwave modelling

• Electromagnetic Theory

• Introduction to Snow on Sea Ice

• Sea Ice in SMRT

• Snow Microstructure

• Radiative Transfer Theory in SMRT

• Substrate and Atmosphere

• Altimetry

• Parallel Computing with SMRT

• Lightning Talks from 2023 Participants

Reference API documentation

The detailed documentation with all SMRT functions and objects is in the reference API documentation

In addition, a graph "What's in SMRT" highlights all the components currently implemented

Code examples

• Official examples (notebooks): RunningSMRT

• Code to build figures in the GMDD paper (notenooks): SMRT1paper

• Tutorials from the 1st SMRT Workshop: Workshop tutorials