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REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
卷 86, 期 1, 页码 52-69出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(03)00068-3
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scatterometer; freeze-thaw; snow; hydrology
The presence of snow strongly impacts the exchange of moisture and energy between the land surface and atmosphere. In the interior of the northern hemisphere continents, snowmelt on frozen soils can cause or exacerbate major floods. Microwave remote sensing from satellite platforms has the potential to monitor the freeze-thaw status of soil and overlying snow packs over large areas. We evaluate the backscatter response of the NSCAT scatterometer to changing snow surface conditions, especially freeze and thaw status, using a macroscale hydrology model and the NSCAT backscatter data for the upper Mississippi River basin of the north central U.S. and the Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) region in central Canada. We compared the snowmelt conditions simulated by the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) macroscale hydrology model driven with surface meteorological observations with NSCAT measurements for 1996-1997 snow season. A mid-winter thaw event (in February) and late season melt (April-May) are evaluated for both regions. Comparison of backscatter images with daily and hourly-modeled snow surface wetness and temperature showed that the model agreed with the backscatter for snow surface wetness on some days but not on others. Factors such as NSCAT overpass times, vegetation on the ground and their freeze-thaw state, and liquid moisture content appear to contribute to these discrepancies. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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