| Abstract: | The influence of stratigraphy of the snow cover on its radio-brightness temperature in the centimeter interval of the microwave range is considered. It is shown that the observed angular distributions of radio-brightness temperature are related to the structural variations of the snow cover. The possibility of developing a method for remote monitoring of the internal layers of the snow cover is discussed for the purpose of predicting avalanche hazard in mountains. Institute of Space Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 1050–1059, August, 1997. |
