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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 122, 期 6, 页码 3348-3360出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD026148
关键词
land surface temperature; microwaves; infrared
资金
- Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) [SFRH/BD/96466/2013]
- NASA [NNH04CC43C]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/96466/2013] Funding Source: FCT
A comparison of land surface temperature (Ts) derived from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) with infrared Ts is presented. The infrared Ts include clear-sky estimates from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Imager, and the Japanese Meteorological Imager. The higher discrepancies between AMSR-E and MODIS are observed over deserts and snow-covered areas. The former seems to be associated with Ts underestimation by MODIS, whereas the latter is mostly related to uncertainties in microwave emissivity over snow/ice. Ts differences between AMSR-E and MODIS are significantly reduced after masking out snow and deserts, with a bias change from 2.6/4.6K to 3.0/1.4K for daytime/nighttime and a standard deviation (STD) decrease from 7.3/7.9K to 5.1/3.9K. When comparing with all infrared sensors, the STD of the differences between microwave and infrared Ts is generally higher than between IR retrievals. However, the biases between microwave and infrared Ts are, in some cases, of the same order as the ones observed between infrared products. This is the case for GOES, with daytime biases with respect to AMSR-E and MODIS of 0.45K and 0.60K, respectively. While the infrared Ts are clear-sky estimates, AMSR-E also provides Ts under cloudy conditions. For frequently cloudy regions, this results in a large increase of available Ts estimates (>250%), making the microwave Ts a very powerful complement of the infrared estimates.
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