Prototyping a Generic, Unified Land Surface Classification and Screening Methodology for GPM-Era Microwave Land Precipitation Retrieval Algorithms

ERA-Interim/Land: a global land surface reanalysis data set

ERA-Interim/Land is a global land surface reanalysis data set covering the period 1979–2010. It describes the evolution of soil moisture, soil temperature and snowpack. ERA-Interim/Land is the result of a single 32-year simulation with the latest ECMWF (European Centre for MediumRange Weather Forecasts) land surface model driven by meteorological forcing from the ERA-Interim atmospheric reanaly...

Evaluation of GPM Precipitation Estimates for Cross - cutting Earth Science Applications via Land Data Assimilation Studies Rapid Prototyping

Land Surface Microwave Emissivities over the Globe for a Decade

Scientifique, Laboratoire d’Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France; AIRES—Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/L’Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, University Paris VI, Paris, France; ROSSOW—NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Dr. Catherine Prigent, C...

A Physically Constrained Calibration Database for Land Surface Temperature Using Infrared Retrieval Algorithms

Land Surface Temperature (LST) is routinely retrieved from remote sensing instruments using semi-empirical relationships between top of atmosphere (TOA) radiances and LST, using ancillary data such as total column water vapor or emissivity. These algorithms are calibrated using a set of forward radiative transfer simulations that return the TOA radiances given the LST and the thermodynamic prof...

Satellite-based Precipitation and a Coupled Land

12 A widely used land surface model, the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model, is coupled 13 with a newly developed hierarchical dominant river tracing-based runoff-routing model to form 14 the Dominant river tracing-Routing Integrated with VIC Environment (DRIVE) model, which 15 serves as the new core of the real-time Global Flood Monitoring System (GFMS). The GFMS 16 uses real-time sate...