Radiative Transfer and Surface Property Modelling

4th Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties: Presentations

Session 1: Land Data Assimilation / Monitoring / Applications

S. Mecklenburg (ESA)

• ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission: An overview on the mission’s performance and scientific results

P. DeRosnay (ECMWF)

• Assimilation of land surface satellite data for operational Numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF

J.F. Mahfouf (CNRM)

• Assimilation of superficial soil moisture in the land surface scheme ISBA: comparison between Extended and Ensemble Kalman Filters

N. Rodriguez-Fernandez (ECMWF)

• Assimilation of SMOS neural-network-retrieved soil moisture for numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF

M. Kim (KMA/National Institute of Meteorological Sciences)

• The Application of Satellite Data in the Global Surface Data Assimilation System at KMA

S. English (ECMWF)

• Surface temperature for Atmospheric Sounding

A. Duguay-Tetzlaff (MeteoSwiss)

• A satellite-based long-term Land Surface Temperature Climate Data Record

J. Brooke (MetOffice)

• Evaluating the Unified Model and JULES simulated land surface temperature (LST) using MODIS LST retrievals and ground-based eddy-covariance flux measurements

N. Boukachaba (CNRM)

• The improvement of assimilation of IASI surface-sensitive channels over land at convective scale AROME Model

G. Balsamo (ECMWF)

• Comparison of model land skin temperature with remotely sensed estimates and assessment of surface-atmosphere coupling

S. Munchak (NASA GSFC)

• GPM Observations of Microwave Land Surface Emissivity and Radar Backscatter

J. Turk (JPL)

• Estimating Non-Raining Surface Parameters to Assist GPM Constellation Radiometer Precipitation Algorithms

C. Birman (CNRM)

• Daily rainfall detection and estimation over land using microwave surface emissivities

Session 2: Surface Emissivity Modeling / Retrieval

R. Tonboe (DMI)

• Simulations of the sea ice thermal microwave emissivity

M. Chen (JCSDA/STAR/NESDIS)

• Development and improvement of Community Surface Emissivity MODEL (CSEM) system

S. Ringerud (NASA GSFC / USRA)

• Land Surface Properties and Emissivity in Passive Microwave Precipitation Retrievals for GPM

R. Gray (MetOffice)

• Introduction to the Development of a Dynamic Infrared Land Surface Emissivity Atlas based on IASI Retrievals

M. Lange (DWD)

• Evaluation of an emissivity module to improve the simulation of L-band brightness temperature over desert regions with CMEM

C. Prigent (Observatoire de Paris)

• Generic emissivity parameterizations at microwave to sub-millimeter waves, for ocean and land

D. Wang (Observatoire de Paris)

• Estimation of surface emissivity up to 325 GHz with the ISMAR airborne instrument

E. Borbas (UW-Madison/SSEC/CIMSS)

• The MEASURES High Spectral Resolution MODIS/ASTER Emissivity Database and its evaluation with RTTOV

S. Arhab (Université d’Avignon et des Pays du Vaucluse)

• Reconstruction of surface profiles by iterative Newton-Kantorovitch’s method

Y. Tian (NASA/GSFC)

• Statistical and Physical Modeling for Real-time Estimation of Land Surface Microwave Emissivity

Z. Guerraou (ONERA)

• Investigation of sea clutter azimuthal variations

Session 3: Issues Related to Snow Surfaces

M. Dechambre (LATMOS)

• Scattering Properties of Electromagnetic Waves in Stratified air/snow/ice & air/vegetation/soil modeling: sensitivity analysis

J. Vidôt (Météo-France/CMS)

• A snow BRDF atlas for RTTOV: comparison with in situ measurements

M. Dumont (CNRM)

• On the benefit of using spectral albedo and light penetration depth in detailed snowpack simulations

L. Charrois (CNRM)

• Towards the assimilation of MODIS reflectance into the detailed snowpack model SURFEX/ISBA-Crocus

T. Landelius (SMHI)

• Assimilation of satellite-based measurements of the hydrosphere – towards a combined meteorological-hydrological forecasting system

G. Veyssière (CNRM)

• Towards the use of SAR observations to study snowpack properties in Alpine regions

J.P. Dedieu (LTHE)

• Snow properties retrieval by full polarimetric decomposition in C-band SAR data

M. Gay (GipsaLab)

• Penetration depth of synthetic aperture radar signals (1-100 GHz) in ice and snow: an analytical approach