Soil Moisture Remote Sensing for Numerical Weather Prediction: L-Band and C-Band Emission Modeling Over Land Surfaces, the Community Microwave Emission Model (CMEM)

Author

de Rosnay, P. ; Drusch, M. ; Wigneron, J.-P. ; Holmes, T. ; Balsamo, G. ; Boone, A. ; Rüdiger, C. ; Calvet, J.C. ; Kerr, Y.

Author_Institution

Eur. Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The community microwave emission model (CMEM) is the low frequency forward observation operator developed at ECMWF. It is used in this paper to simulate brightness temperatures at local and regional scales over SMOSREX (France) and AMMA (West Africa), respectively. Background errors in simulated brightness temperatures are quantified at different frequencies and incidence angles for these two sites.

Keywords

atmospheric radiation; atmospheric techniques; hydrology; land surface temperature; microwave generation; remote sensing; soil; weather forecasting; AMMA; C-band emission modeling; ECMWF; France; L-band emission modeling; SMOSREX; West Africa; brightness temperature; community microwave emission model; land surfaces; low frequency forward observation operator; numerical weather prediction; soil moisture remote sensing; Atmospheric modeling; Brightness temperature; L-band; Land surface; Ocean temperature; Predictive models; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Soil moisture; Weather forecasting; ALMIP; AMSR-E; CMEM; SMOS; SMOSREX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779054

Filename

4779054