Determining diurnal variations of land surface emissivity from geostationary satellites

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Li, Zhenglong ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Li, Yue ^a   Zhang, Yong ^b   Schmit, Timothy J ^c   Zhou, Lihang ^c   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^c   Paul Menzel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

DIURNAL PATTERN; DIURNAL VARIATION; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; METEOSAT-8; MOISTURE PROFILES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PHYSICALLY BASED; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SAHARA DESERT; SANDY SOILS; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPINNING ENHANCED VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGER; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATABASE; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMISSIVITY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; INFRARED IMAGERY; LABORATORY METHOD; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SANDY SOIL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVE MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SAHARA;

EID: 84871358371     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD018279     Document Type: Article

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