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Snow wetness retrieved from close-range L-band radiometry in the western Greenland ablation zone
Journal of Glaciology ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 , DOI: 10.1017/jog.2020.79
Reza Naderpour , Derek Houtz , Mike Schwank

Close-range (CR) L-band radiometry and quasi-simultaneous in situ snow characterizations were conducted in May 2019 at the Swiss Camp research site in the ablation zone of the western Greenland ice sheet. Snow liquid-water and its melt/refreeze are retrieved from microwave antenna temperatures measured with the ground-based L-band radiometer ELBARA-III. The emission model (EM) used in the retrieval is a two-layer configuration of the ‘L-Band Specific Microwave Emission Model of Layered Snowpack’. Consistent snow wetness retrievals were achieved from both single- and multi-angle CR observations of L-band antenna temperatures. This suggests that multi-angle observation is not a pre-requisite for snow wetness retrieval. Therefore, in addition to soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) multi-angle measurements, snow wetness can be estimated from spaceborne L-band brightness temperatures measured at a single observation angle, such as from NASA's SMAP satellite. Our results provide partial validation of a recently presented snow wetness retrieval approach based on the same EM and applied over Greenland using multi-angle SMOS brightness temperatures. Agreement between measured CR antenna temperatures and SMOS brightness temperatures is found to be within the 95% confidence intervals of ELBARA-III and SMOS measurement uncertainties. Our measurements confirm the modeled response of antenna temperatures to diurnal variations of snow wetness.

中文翻译:

格陵兰西部消融区近距离 L 波段辐射测量法反演的雪湿度

2019 年 5 月,在格陵兰岛西部冰盖消融区的瑞士营地研究地点进行了近距离 (CR) L 波段辐射测量和准同步原位雪表征。使用地面 L 波段辐射计 ELBARA-III 测量的微波天线温度可获取雪液态水及其融化/重新冻结的温度。检索中使用的发射模型 (EM) 是“分层积雪的 L 波段特定微波发射模型”的两层配置。从 L 波段天线温度的单角度和多角度 CR 观测中实现了一致的雪湿度反演。这表明多角度观测不是雪湿反演的先决条件。因此,除了土壤水分和海洋盐度(SMOS)多角度测量,雪湿度可以通过在单个观测角度测量的星载 L 波段亮度温度来估计,例如从 NASA 的 SMAP 卫星。我们的结果为最近提出的基于相同 EM 并使用多角度 SMOS 亮度温度在格陵兰岛应用的雪湿度反演方法提供了部分验证。测得的 CR 天线温度和 SMOS 亮度温度之间的一致性被发现在 ELBARA-III 和 SMOS 测量不确定性的 95% 置信区间内。我们的测量结果证实了天线温度对雪湿度日变化的模拟响应。我们的结果为最近提出的基于相同 EM 并使用多角度 SMOS 亮度温度在格陵兰岛应用的雪湿度反演方法提供了部分验证。测得的 CR 天线温度和 SMOS 亮度温度之间的一致性被发现在 ELBARA-III 和 SMOS 测量不确定性的 95% 置信区间内。我们的测量结果证实了天线温度对雪湿度日变化的模拟响应。我们的结果为最近提出的基于相同 EM 并使用多角度 SMOS 亮度温度在格陵兰岛应用的雪湿度反演方法提供了部分验证。测得的 CR 天线温度和 SMOS 亮度温度之间的一致性被发现在 ELBARA-III 和 SMOS 测量不确定性的 95% 置信区间内。我们的测量结果证实了天线温度对雪湿度日变化的模拟响应。
更新日期:2020-10-07
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