Land surface microwave emissivities derived from AMSR-E and MODIS measurements with advanced quality control

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

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

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ADVANCED QUALITY CONTROL; AQUA SPACECRAFTS; CONTROL FEATURES; DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM; DRY SOIL; EMISSIVITY RETRIEVAL; HIGH QUALITY; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE PROPERTIES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE EMISSIVITY; MICROWAVE SCANNING; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PASSIVE MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS; PENETRATION EFFECTS; POLAR REGIONS; SEMI-ARID REGION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL INHOMOGENEITIES; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; WATER FRACTION; WATERBODIES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; AQUA (SATELLITE); CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATABASE; EMISSIVITY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INHOMOGENEITY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODIS; POLAR REGION; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPACECRAFT; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 80052548282     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015429     Document Type: Article

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