Comparable Trends in Retrieved Surface Melting of Ice Sheets using SMAP L-band Microwave Radiometry and a Surface Mass Balance Model of Glaciers

Mohammad Mousavi1, Andreas Colliander1, Nicole Schlegel2, Julie Z Miller3 and John Kimball4, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Earth Science and Observation Center, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, United States