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The land surface temperature (LST) in permafrost regions in the Northeast permafrost on March 22 (spring), June 24 (summer), September 21 (autumn), and December 24 (winter) in 2019 were retrieved based on the AMSR2 brightness temperature data. An in-depth analysis of the temperature retrieval accuracy between different types of frozen ground, vegetation cover, and during the four seasons of the day or night was conducted. The results show that: (1) The retrieval accuracy of the four seasons lowers in the seasonal order of summer > autumn > spring > winter, and the accuracy of data at the night was better than that of the day; (2) The retrieval accuracy of different vegetation cover types lowers in the order of grassland > agricultural land > forest land, and; (3) The retrieval accuracy of different frozen ground types lowers in the order of the zone of seasonal frost > zone of isolated patches of thawing permafrost > zone of island permafrost zone > continuous permafrost zone.
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The authors would like to thank the MODIS teams for their work. The AMSR2 L3 TB data used for this study were provided courtesy of JAXA. This research was financially funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Nos. 41901072 and 41971151), and Joint Key Program of the NSFC and Heilongjiang Province of China (Grant No. U20A2082).
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Yin, H., Li, M., Man, H. et al. Retrieval and analysis of land surface temperature in permafrost regions in Northeast China based on AMSR2 data. Earth Sci Inform 14, 1245–1260 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-021-00666-7
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