Northern ecosystems are a major sink for atmospheric CO2 and contain much of the world’s soil organic carbon (SOC) that is potentially reactive to near-term climate change. We introduce a simple terrestrial carbon flux (TCF) model driven by satellite remote sensing inputs from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-...

Northern ecosystems are a major sink for atmospheric CO2 and contain much of the world’s soil organic carbon (SOC) that is potentially reactive to near-term climate change. We introduce a simple terrestrial carbon flux (TCF) model driven by satellite remote sensing inputs from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-...

The knowledge of snow storage plays a fundamental role for many reasons. For example, in many regions of the world the majority of total annual precipitation occurs as snowfall and melting snow represents a major source of fresh water. Improved estimates of snow storage will benefit regional-scale hydrological models and general circulation models (GCMs) and will lead to better simulations of l...

Soil moisture is one of the most important climatic parameters playing an important role in the global climate system. Soil moisture can be derived from in-situ measurements as well as remotely sensed observations. However, these measurements typically lack the spatial and/or temporal resolutions necessary for modeling and applications. Land surface models (LSM) can be used to simulate the land...

This paper presents the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Land Surface Models Intercomparison Project (ALMIP) for Microwave Emission Models (ALMIP-MEM). ALMIP-MEM consists in an ensemble of simulations of C-band brightness temperatures over West Africa for a one-year annual cycle in 2006. Simulations have been performed for an incidence angle of 55◦ and results are evaluated aga...

This is the final report on the project entitled “Validation of AMSR snow depth on sea ice retrievals using an airborne pulse radar.” This is a collaborative project between the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). We designed and developed ultrawideband radars for measuring thickness of snow over sea ice from ...

The ocean algorithm is based on the physical Radiative Transfer Model (RTM) described in Wentz and Meissner [2000]. The RTM consists of an atmospheric absorption model for water vapor, oxygen and liquid cloud water and a sea surface emissivity model that parameterizes the emissivity as function of sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity, sea surface wind speed and direction. The details o...