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Snow grain size and impurities around the North Pole, June 18, 2000 (GLI Level 2 simulated using MODIS L1B)

Spatial distribution of snow grain size image (Upper Left) and impurities (Upper Right) derived by GLI standard algorithm (CTSK2b1) , and that of brightness temperature at 11 um (Lower left) using MODIS L1B data in 18 June 2000. Lower right panel shows the relation between the retrieved snow grain size and brightness temperature at 11um.