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A new parameterization of the effective temperature for L band radiometry

2006; American Geophysical Union; Volume: 33; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1029/2006gl025724

ISSN

1944-8007

Autores

Thomas Holmes, Patricia de Rosnay, Richard de Jeu, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, Yann H. Kerr, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Maria‐José Escorihuela, K. Saleh, Frédéric Lemaître,

Tópico(s)

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques

Resumo

An accurate value of the effective temperature is critical for soil emissivity retrieval, and hence soil moisture content retrieval, from passive microwave observations. Computation of the effective temperature needs fine profile measurements of soil temperature and soil moisture. The availability of a two year long data set of these surface variables from SMOSREX (Surface Monitoring Of the Soil Reservoir EXperiment) makes it possible to study the effective temperature at the seasonal to interannual scale. This study shows that present parameterizations do not adequately describe the seasonal variations in sensing depth. Therefore, a new parameterization is proposed that is stable at the seasonal to interannual scales while retaining simplicity.

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