Radiative Transfer and Surface Property Modelling

2nd Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties: Presentations

Session 1: Assimilation Issues and Advances in NWP Systems

F. BOUTTIER (GAME/CNRM, France, INVITED PRESENTATION)

• Current issues in atmospheric data assimilation

G. DEBLONDE (Environment Canada, INVITED PRESENTATION)

• Overview of data assimilation activities for weather forecasting at Environment Canada

E. PAVELIN (Met-Office, UK, INVITED PRESENTATION)

• Satellite radiance data assimilation at the Met Office

S. ENGLISH (Met-Office, UK)

• Assimilation of lower tropospheric sounding AMSU channels over land at the Met-Office

B. KRZEMINSKI (ECMWF, UK)

• The use of surface-sensitive microwave radiances over land at ECMWF

F. KARBOU (GAME/CNRM, France)

• On the importance of land surface emissivity to assimilate low level humidity and temperature observations over land

S. HEILLIETTE (Environment Canada)

• Assimilation of surface sensitive infrared channels in the CMC global forecast system

N. FOURRIE (GAME/CNRM, France)

• Studies on the assimilation of AIRS/IASI near surface channels in the French Global Numerical Weather Prediction model

B. YAN (JCSDA, USA)

• Assimilation impact study of microwave land emissivity on national centers for environmental prediction global forecast system

E. GERARD (GAME/CNRM, France)

• Towards the use of SSM/I observations over land in the French global and limited-area models

B. YAN (JCSDA, USA)

• Improvement of Satellite Data Utilization in NCEP Operational NWP Modeling and Data Assimilation Systems

Session 2: Land Emissivity Modeling and Retrieval: IR / MW

F. WENG (NOAA/NESDIS, USA, INVITED PRESENTATION)

• Land Surface Emissivity Characterization for Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) Applications

E. BORBAS (SSEC/CIMSS, USA, INVITED PRESENTATION)

• Recent update and validation of the UW/CIMSS high spectral resolution global IR land surface emissivity database

F. GERBER (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France)

• Modeling the infrared optical properties of plant leaves to improve water content estimation

F. AIRES (LMD, France)

• A new RTTOV land surface microwave emissivity tool

S. FREITAS (Instituto de Meteorologia Lisboa, Portugal)

• LST and EM retrievals from SEVIRI on board Meteosat: Algorithms, uncertainties and validation

E. SANTI (IFAC/CNR, Italy)

• Microwave emissivity of land surfaces: experiments and models

H. SUN (NOAA/NESDIS, USA)

• Evaluation of Principal Components Regression Algorithms for Land Surface Emissivity Retrieval by Using IASI

Y. QIU (CEODE/CAS, China)

• Global Instantaneous Emissivities Estimation Using AMSR-E measurements over land

F. SUN (NOAA/NESDIS, USA)

• Global Monthly Surface Emissivity Datasets Derived from the Hyperspectral Instruments

Session 3: Surface emissivity of Snow, Sea Ice, and Open Sea

C. MATZLER (Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, SWITZERLAND, INVITED PRESENTATION)

• Advances in passive microwave emission models: snow and ice including atmospheric effects

C. HARLOW (Met-Office, UK)

• Lambertian surface scattering at AMSU-B frequencies: An analysis of airborne microwave data measured over snow-covered surfaces

S. GUEDJ (GAME/CNRM, France)

• Toward a better modelling of surface emissivity to improve AMSU data assimilation over Antarctica

G. PICARD (LGGE, France)

• Relationship between passive microwave observations and snow properties in Antarctica over a large range of frequencies

L. BRUCKER (LGGE, France)

• Modeling microwave emissivity at 19 GHZ and 37 GHz in Antarctica: Influence on the snow grain size

S. BOUKABARA (NOAA/NESDIS, USA)

• Retrieval of Surface Properties Based on Microwave Emissivity Spectra

K. R. SINGH (ISRO, India)

• Estimation of thin ice thickness from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS for a coastal polynya in the Arctic

H. SCHYBERG (Norwegian Meteo. Inst., Norway)

• Developments towards assimilation of surface sensitive AMSU channels over sea ice in HIRLAM

P. VAN DELST (JCSDA, USA)

• Implementation of a new infrared sea surface emissivity model in the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM)

Q. LIU (JCSDA, USA)

• Improving Sea Surface Microwave Emissivity Model for Radiance assimilation

Session 4: Land Data Assimilation and Applications

P. DE ROSNAY (ECMWF, UK, INVITED PRESENTATION)

• ECMWF land surface analysis: current status and developments

J-F. MAHFOUF (GAME/CNRM, France)

• Preliminary steps towards the assimilation of satellite derived soil moisture in the Météo-France NWP models

M. CARRERA (Environment Canada)

• The Canadian Land Data Assimilation System (CaLDAS)

W. LAHOZ (NILU, Norway)

• Development of a land data assimilation system at NILU

J-P. WIGNERON (INRA, France, INVITED PRESENTATION)

• Improved parameterization of the emissivity of soil surfaces and forests at L-band (L-MEB modelling)

J-C. CALVET (GAME/CNRM, France)

• Validation of satellite soil moisture products over southwestern France using model simulations and in-situ data

J. WALKER (University of Melbourne, Australia)

• An in situ-model-aircraft cross validation strategy for SMOS

J. MUNOZ S. (ECMWF, UK)

• ECMWF Contribution to the SMOS Project

M. CRAPEAU (INRA, France)

• Roughness calibration for the SMOS L-MEB model

L. ROSSATO (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil)

• Retrieval of Soil Moisture in South America Derived from Microwave Observations

Session 5: Monitoring Land Surface (ex. Heat Fluxes, Rain)

C. PRIGENT (Observatoire de Paris, France, INVITED PRESENTATION)

• Multi-frequency characterization of arid surfaces, from the visible to the microwaves

J. SOBRINO (Univ. of Valencia, Spain)

• Soil emissivity spectra for ground and remote sensing thermal calibration

A. LESAIGNOUX (ONERA, France)

• Soil Moisture Impact on Lab Measured Reflectance of Bare Soils in the Optical Domain [0.35 – 15 µm]

C. JIMENEZ (Observatoire de Paris, France)

• Using microwave emissivities for the estimation of global land surface heat fluxes

C. BACOUR (LSCE, France)

• Assimilation of satellite fAPAR within the ORCHIDEE biosphere model and its impacts on land surface carbon & energy fluxes

M. MIRA (Univ. of Valencia, Spain)

• Analysing Land Surface Emissivity with Multispectral Thermal Infrared Data

R. FERRARO (NOAA/NESDIS, USA)

• Land Surface Emissivity for Precipitation Retrieval in the GPM-era

F. FURUZAWA (Nagoya University, Japan)

• Land Emissivity Map Obtained from TRMM PR, TMI and JRA-25 Data from AMSR-E and MODIS Measurements

R. KNUTESON (Univ. Wisconsin, USA)

• Assessing the error in calculated OLR due to uncertainties in surface properties using AIRS, MODIS and CERES observations

D. ZHOU (NASA LRC, USA)

• Seasonal products of global land emissivity retrieved from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer

B. PINTY (JRC, Italy)

• Operational retrieval of land surface parameters from MODIS and MISR albedo products