Ice phenology has shifted with anthropogenic warming such that many lakes are
experiencing a shorter ice season. However, changes to ice quality—the ratio of black and …

Monitoring of lake ice is important to maintain transportation routes, but in recent decades
the number of in situ observations have declined. Remote sensing has worked to fill this gap …

Lake ice provides important social and economic services to local communities, in addition
to being a sensitive indicator of climate change. The reduction of ground observations of …

Synthetic aperture radar is an invaluable tool for monitoring lake ice. This study utilizes
synthetic aperture radar to analyze the 2019-2023 backscatter time series of perennially ice …

Lake ice, serving as a sensitive indicator of climate change, is an important regulator of
regional hydroclimate and lake ecosystems. For ice-covered lakes, traditional satellite …

Change of supraglacial lakes (SGLs) is an important hydrological activity on the Greenland
ice sheet (GrIS), and storage and drainage of SGLs occur throughout the year. However …

Snow in mountain catchments serves as a constant water release during the melting
season, supporting many human activities downstream. However, it also poses threats to …

As a powerful tool for simulating bi-directional reflectance and radiative transfer (RT) in
complex canopies, the radiosity graphics model (RGM) suffers from a reduced runtime …

In this work, backscattering signatures of snow-covered lake ice and sea ice from X-and Ku-
band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data are investigated. The SAR data were acquired …

Lake ice thickness (LIT) is a sensitive indicator of climate change, identified as a thematic
variable of Lakes as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) by the Global Climate Observing …