Comparison of Radiative Transfer Models for Simulating Snow Surface Thermal Infrared Emissivity

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 323-336

  Cheng, Jie ^a,b   Wang, Jindi ^a   Li, Xiaowen ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^b   Weng, Fuzhong ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

DISORT; Mie theory; radiative transfer model; snow emissivity spectra

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY FACTOR; BEST MODEL; CORRECTION METHOD; DISORT; EMISSIVITY SPECTRA; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MIE THEORY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SINGLE-SCATTERING ALBEDO; THERMAL-INFRARED;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; SNOW;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ALBEDO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMISSIVITY; ERROR CORRECTION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; MIE THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW COVER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 77956222542     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2050300     Document Type: Article

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