Using microwave brightness temperature diurnal cycle to improve emissivity retrievals over land

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 470-482

  Norouzi, Hamidreza ^a,b   Rossow, William ^b   Temimi, Marouane ^b   Prigent, Catherine ^c   Azarderakhsh, Marzieh ^b   Boukabara, Sid ^d   Khanbilvardi, Reza ^b  

^a NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; Diurnal cycle; Effective temperature; Emissivity; Land; Passive microwave; Soil moisture; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DIURNAL CYCLE; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; EMISSIVITY; LAND; PASSIVE MICROWAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

MICROWAVES;

AMPLITUDE; AMSR-E; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMISSIVITY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

ERAGROSTIS TEF;

EID: 84861006693     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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