The sensitivity of land emissivity estimates from AMSR-E at C and X bands to surface properties

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3577-3589

  Norouzi, H ^a,b   Temimi, M ^b   Rossow, W B ^b   Pearl, C ^b   Azarderakhsh, M ^a,b   Khanbilvardi, R ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; ANCILLARY DATA; ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; ATMOSPHERIC PROPERTIES; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSIONS; CLOUD MASKS; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; DOWN-WELLING; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; EMISSIVITY RETRIEVAL; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; KU BAND; LAND EMISSIVITY; LAND SURFACE PROPERTIES; LAND-COVER TYPES; LOW FREQUENCY; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; OPERATIONAL VERTICAL SOUNDERS; ORBIT TIME; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION DIFFERENCE; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SIMILAR PATTERN; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SOIL LAYER; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUBSURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMAL IR; VEGETATION DENSITY; X BANDS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ESTIMATION; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TESTING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AMSR-E; AMSU; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMISSIVITY; EOS; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SSM-I;

EID: 82355187896     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-3577-2011     Document Type: Article

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