An evaluation of microwave land surface emissivities over the continental United States to benefit GPM-Era precipitation algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 378-398

  Ferraro, Ralph R ^a   Peters Lidard, Christa D ^b   Hernandez, Cecilia ^c   Joseph Turk, F ^d   Aires, Filipe ^e   Prigent, Catherine ^f   Lin, Xin ^b,c   Boukabara, Sid Ahmed ^a   Furuzawa, Fumie A ^g   Gopalan, Kaushik ^h   Harrison, Kenneth W ⁱ   Karbou, Fatima ^j   Li, Li ^k   Liu, Chuntao ^l   Masunaga, Hirohiko ^g   Moy, Leslie ^a   Ringerud, Sarah ^m   Skofronick Jackson, Gail M ^b   Tian, Yudong ^b   Wang, Nai Yu ^c  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Estellus ^*  (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

ⁱ NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^k NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^m Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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Author keywords

Emissivity; land surface; passive microwave remote sensing; precipitation

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; COMPLEX SURFACE; EARTH'S SURFACE; EMISSION TECHNIQUES; EMISSIVITY; EMISSIVITY RETRIEVAL; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HUMIDITY SOUNDERS; INTERCOMPARISONS; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LOW-FREQUENCY METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL RETRIEVALS; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION RETRIEVALS; RADIOMETER DATA; RAIN EVENTS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEASONAL TRENDS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; WARM SEASONS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVES; MODELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA SET; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL EMISSION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871949412     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2199121     Document Type: Article

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