Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Land-Atmosphere Interactions (PDF)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Authors -- List of Reviewers -- Subject index -- Global and mesoscale modeling and data needs -- Large-scale land-atmosphere models and data needs -- Mesoscale land-atmosphere models and usefulness of microwave remote-sensing data -- Snow cover and snow mass estimates from remote sensing, climatology and the United Kingdom Meteorological Office General Circulation Model -- Soil moisture estimation: comparisons between hydrologic model estimates and remotely sensed estimates -- Synergism -- Sensitivity of active and passive microwave sensors to land parameters -- Theory of microwave scattering from vegetation based on the collective scattering effects of discrete scatterers -- Synergism of optical and microwave observations for land surface studies -- Radiometry at infrared and microwave frequencies -- Synergism of active and passive microwave data for estimating bare soil surface moisture -- Snow -- Intercomparison of snow retrieval algorithms by means of spaceborne microwave radiometry -- Canadian development and use of snow cover information from passive microwave satellite data -- Application of SSM/I data for snow cover and climate research -- Size parameters of snow grains in scattering and emission models -- Monitoring snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau using passive microwave satellite data -- Passive microwave remote sensing of snow: volume scattering in snow and parametric inversion of snow parameters with an artificial neural network -- Vegetation -- Vegetation models and observations A review -- Progress in multi-frequency radiometry of natural objects -- Microwave emission from vegetation -- Canopy opacity models -- Modeling microwave emission from vegetation-covered surfaces: a parametric analysis -- Retrieval of geophysical parameters from multifrequency passive microwave measurements over a soybean canopy -- Soil moisture -- Passive microwave radiation from soil: examples of emission models and observations -- Estimation of soil moisture profiles and root zone moisture content by means of microwave radiometry and a priori information -- Soil moisture estimation from multifrequency microwave radiometer data based on statistical inversion technique -- Retrieval of soil moisture profile by combined remote sensing and modeling -- Identification of snowcover using SSM/I measurements -- Surface temperature -- Surface temperature estimation over land using satellite microwave radiometry -- Evaporation monitoring over land surface using microwave radiometry -- A model for the radiobrightness of Northern Prairie -- Atmospheric correction and precipitation -- Overland precipitation -- Theoretical foundations and verification of a multispectral, inversion-type microwave precipitation profile retrieval algorithm -- Radiometric correction for atmospheric effects in surface sensing from aircraft and satellites -- Instrumentation -- The design of the ESA Multifrequency Imaging Microwave Radiometer (MIMR) -- Working group reports -- ESA/NASA St.-Lary Workshop 11-15 January 1993 Working Group Reports -- Working group A1: Snow -- Working group A2: Vegetation and temperature -- Working group A3: Soil moisture -- Working group A4: Atmospheric correction/precipitation -- Working group B1: Modelling -- Working group B2: Synergism