Microwave emissivity of fresh water ice--Lake ice and Antarctic ice pack--Radiative transfer simulations versus satellite radiances
Microwave emissivity models of sea ice are poorly validated empirically. Typical validation studies involve using averaged or stereotyped profiles of ice parameters against averaged radiance measurements. Measurement sites are rarely matched and even less often point-by-point. Because of saline cont...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1202.4095 2023-05-15T13:53:56+02:00 Microwave emissivity of fresh water ice--Lake ice and Antarctic ice pack--Radiative transfer simulations versus satellite radiances Mills, Peter 2012 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1202.4095 https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4095 unknown arXiv Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode cc-by-nc-sa-3.0 CC-BY-NC-SA Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2012 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1202.4095 2022-04-01T14:02:56Z Microwave emissivity models of sea ice are poorly validated empirically. Typical validation studies involve using averaged or stereotyped profiles of ice parameters against averaged radiance measurements. Measurement sites are rarely matched and even less often point-by-point. Because of saline content, complex permittivity of sea ice is highly variable and difficult to predict. Therefore, to check the validity of a typical, plane-parallel, radiative-transfer-based ice emissivity model, we apply it to fresh water ice instead of salt-water ice. Radiance simulations for lake ice are compared with measurements over Lake Superior from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on EOS (AMSR-E). AMSR-E measurements are also collected over Antarctic icepack. For each pixel, a thermodynamic model is driven by four years of European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis data and the resulting temperature profiles used to drive the emissivity model. The results suggest that the relatively simple emissivity model is a good fit to the data. Both cases, however, show large discrepencies whose most likely explanation is scattering both within the ice sheet as well as by cloudy atmospheres. Scattering is neglected by the model. Further work is needed to refine the scattering component of ice emissivity models and to generate accurate estimates of complex permittivities within sea ice. : Made some minor corrections Report Antarc* Antarctic ice pack Ice Sheet Sea ice DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic |
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Microwave emissivity models of sea ice are poorly validated empirically. Typical validation studies involve using averaged or stereotyped profiles of ice parameters against averaged radiance measurements. Measurement sites are rarely matched and even less often point-by-point. Because of saline content, complex permittivity of sea ice is highly variable and difficult to predict. Therefore, to check the validity of a typical, plane-parallel, radiative-transfer-based ice emissivity model, we apply it to fresh water ice instead of salt-water ice. Radiance simulations for lake ice are compared with measurements over Lake Superior from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on EOS (AMSR-E). AMSR-E measurements are also collected over Antarctic icepack. For each pixel, a thermodynamic model is driven by four years of European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis data and the resulting temperature profiles used to drive the emissivity model. The results suggest that the relatively simple emissivity model is a good fit to the data. Both cases, however, show large discrepencies whose most likely explanation is scattering both within the ice sheet as well as by cloudy atmospheres. Scattering is neglected by the model. Further work is needed to refine the scattering component of ice emissivity models and to generate accurate estimates of complex permittivities within sea ice. : Made some minor corrections |
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Microwave emissivity of fresh water ice--Lake ice and Antarctic ice pack--Radiative transfer simulations versus satellite radiances |
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Microwave emissivity of fresh water ice--Lake ice and Antarctic ice pack--Radiative transfer simulations versus satellite radiances |
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Microwave emissivity of fresh water ice--Lake ice and Antarctic ice pack--Radiative transfer simulations versus satellite radiances |
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Microwave emissivity of fresh water ice--Lake ice and Antarctic ice pack--Radiative transfer simulations versus satellite radiances |
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Microwave emissivity of fresh water ice--Lake ice and Antarctic ice pack--Radiative transfer simulations versus satellite radiances |
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microwave emissivity of fresh water ice--lake ice and antarctic ice pack--radiative transfer simulations versus satellite radiances |
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