Model of electromagnetic plane-wave propagation through a column of polycrystalline ice, composed of vertically-stacked, horizontally-homogeneous layers with unconstrained permittivity tensors (orientation fabrics).
| Documentation | Reference |
|---|---|
| Model | Rathmann et al. (2021) |
| Examples of use | TBA |
| Acknowledgements | Passler and Paarmann (2017), Passler et al. (2020), Jeannin (2019), Yeh (1980), Xu et al. (2000) |
In short, the model layer stack is initialized by specifying either the spectral coefficients of the fabric orientation distribution function (ODF) with depth, or by specifying the second-order structure tensor with depth. Thereafter, radar returns can easily be calculated and plotted by specifying the characteristics of the transmitted plane wave.
| Examples | Path |
|---|---|
| Jupyter demo | experiments/demo/demo.ipynb |
| Jupyter demo using specfab | experiments/demo/demo_specfab.ipynb |
| Rathmann et al. (2021) plots | experiments/rathmann-etal-2021 |