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RISSatellite Estimation of Solar Irradiance at the Surface of the Earth and of Surface Albedo Using a Physical Model Applied to Metcosat Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A physically based model is used to derive downward solar irradiance at the surface of the earth and surface albedo from Meteosat satellite measurements in the wavelength range between 0.40 and 1. 1 0 ?m. The model takes ...
Assimilation of Disaggregated Microwave Soil Moisture into a Hydrologic Model Using Coarse-Scale Meteorological Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Near-surface soil moisture retrieved from Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS)-type data is downscaled and assimilated into a distributed soil?vegetation?atmosphere transfer (SVAT) model with the ensemble Kalman filter. ...
Approaches for Averaging Surface Parameters and Fluxes over Heterogeneous Terrain
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Successful prediction of possible climate change depends on realistic parameterization of land surface processes in climate models. Such parameterizations must take appropriate account of the heterogeneities that are found ...
The ISLSCP Initiative I Global Datasets: Surface Boundary Conditions and Atmospheric Forcings for Land-Atmosphere Studies
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A comprehensive series of global datasets for land-atmosphere models has been collected, formatted to a common grid, and released on a set of CD-ROMS. This paper describes the motivation for and the, contents of the dataset. ...
Optimization of a Radiative Transfer Forward Operator for Simulating SMOS Brightness Temperatures over the Upper Mississippi Basin
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission routinely provides global multiangular observations of brightness temperature TB at both horizontal and vertical polarization with a 3-day repeat period. The ...