Assessment of snow grain-size model and stratigraphy representation impacts on snow radiance assimilation: Forward modeling evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 11 PART2, 2012, Pages 4551-4564

  Huang, Chunlin ^a,b   Margulis, Steven A ^a   Durand, Michael T ^c   Musselman, Keith N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; grain size; microwave radiometry; snow

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; SNOW; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; STRATIGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; EXPONENTIAL CORRELATION; FORWARD MODELING; GRAIN SIZE; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; PROPORTIONAL MODELS; RADIANCE ASSIMILATION; RADIOBRIGHTNESS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SNOWPACK STRATIGRAPHY; THREE MODELS;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAIN SIZE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIANCE; SNOW; SNOWPACK;

EID: 84869506865     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2192480     Document Type: Article

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