Error characterization of coupled land surface-radiative transfer models for snow microwave radiance assimilation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5247-5268

  Kwon, Yonghwan ^a   Toure, Ally M ^b,c   Yang, Zong Liang ^d   Rodell, Matthew ^b   Picard, Ghislain ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Error characteristics; land surface model (LSM); microwave brightness temperature; radiative transfer model (RTM); snow

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVES; NASA; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COLD LAND PROCESSES FIELD EXPERIMENTS; ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; ERROR CHARACTERIZATIONS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SIMULATION; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER CONTENT;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 85027944268     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2419977     Document Type: Article

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