Subsurface emission effects in AMSR-E measurements: Implications for land surface microwave emissivity retrieval

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Galantowicz, John F ^a   Moncet, Jean Luc ^a   Liang, Pan ^a   Lipton, Alan E ^a   Uymin, Gennady ^a   Prigent, Catherine ^b   Grassotti, Christopher ^a,c  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DIURNAL VARIATION; EQUATOR CROSSING TIME; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE MODELING; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LOCAL TIME; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; MICROWAVE EMISSIVITY; MICROWAVE SCANNING; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; RETRIEVAL MODELS; SANDY DESERTS; SEASONAL TRENDS; SELF-CONSISTENCY; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER; TIME LAG; TIME-SERIES DATA; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION INDEX;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AMSR-E; ARID REGION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMISSION; EMISSIVITY; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; SEMIARID REGION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION INDEX;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 80051831173     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015431     Document Type: Article

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