Use of scatterometer data for global climate monitoring

Author

Wismann, Volkmar

Author_Institution

Inst. for Appl. Remote Sensing, Freiburg Univ., Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

684

Abstract

Spaceborne scatterometers provide operationally measurements of the normalized radar cross section (NRCS) of the Earth´s surface. Methods have been developed to obtain information on the state of soil thawing in Siberia, on snow accumulation and melt on Greenland, as well as on state of vegetation. More than 7 years of ERS data were used to investigate the interannual variability of these parameters. The results show that scatterometers can provide important information for global climate monitoring and modelling despite their coarse spatial resolution

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; climatology; meteorological radar; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; atmosphere; climate; global climate monitoring; hydrology; interannual variability; land ice; land surface; measurement technique; melt; meteorology; normalized radar cross section; radar remote sensing; radar scatterometry; scatterometer data; snow accumulation; snowcover; soil thawing; spaceborne radar; temperature; vegetation; Earth; Geophysical measurements; Monitoring; Radar cross section; Radar measurements; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Snow; Soil measurements; Spaceborne radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.773605

Filename

773605