Monitoring the spatial and temporal homogeinty of microwave emission on the East-Antarctic plateau

The East Antarctic plateau is a part of Antarctica extending several hundred kilometers around the South Pole with an average elevation close to 3000 m a.s.l. This area provides unique opportunities for various scientific disciplines including Glaciology, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences. In addition, there is growing interest, in using the Antarctic plateau, for calibrating and validating data of satellite-borne microwave radiometers. This is because the size, structure, spatial homogeneity and thermal stability of this area. In this paper we analyse temporal and spatial variability of multi-frequency microwave emission from an area around the Dome-C scientific station by using AMSR-E data collected along the years 2003-2008. From the analysis two candidates areas were founded.