Toward a better modeling of surface emissivity to improve AMSU data assimilation over Antarctica

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1976-1985

  Guedj, Stephanie ^a   Karbou, Fatima ^a   Rabier, Florence ^a   Bouchard, Aurelie ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU); Antarctica; Concordiasi; Data assimilation; Lambertian; Microwave surface emissivity; Specular; Surface assumption

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ANTARCTICA; CONCORDIASI; DATA ASSIMILATION; LAMBERTIAN; MICROWAVE SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SPECULAR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

AMSU; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATABASE; EMISSION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA;

ANTARCTICA;

LAMBERTIA;

EID: 82655168211     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2036254     Document Type: Article

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