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Titel Potential soil moisture products from the aquarius radiometer and scatterometer using an observing system simulation experiment
VerfasserIn Y. Luo, X. Feng, P. Houser, V. Anantharaj, X. Fan, G. Lannoy, X. Zhan, L. Dabbiru
Medientyp Artikel
Sprache Englisch
ISSN 2193-0856
Digitales Dokument URL
Erschienen In: Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems ; 2, no. 1 ; Nr. 2, no. 1 (2013-02-20), S.113-120
Datensatznummer 250017344
Publikation (Nr.) Volltext-Dokument vorhandencopernicus.org/gi-2-113-2013.pdf
 
Zusammenfassung
Using an observing system simulation experiment (OSSE), we investigate the potential soil moisture retrieval capability of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aquarius radiometer (L-band 1.413 GHz) and scatterometer (L-band, 1.260 GHz). We estimate potential errors in soil moisture retrievals and identify the sources that could cause those errors. The OSSE system includes (i) a land surface model in the NASA Land Information System, (ii) a radiative transfer and backscatter model, (iii) a realistic orbital sampling model, and (iv) an inverse soil moisture retrieval model.

We execute the OSSE over a 1000 × 2200 km2 region in the central United States, including the Red and Arkansas river basins. Spatial distributions of soil moisture retrieved from the radiometer and scatterometer are close to the synthetic truth. High root mean square errors (RMSEs) of radiometer retrievals are found over the heavily vegetated regions, while large RMSEs of scatterometer retrievals are scattered over the entire domain. The temporal variations of soil moisture are realistically captured over a sparely vegetated region with correlations 0.98 and 0.63, and RMSEs 1.28% and 8.23% vol/vol for radiometer and scatterometer, respectively. Over the densely vegetated region, soil moisture exhibits larger temporal variation than the truth, leading to correlation 0.70 and 0.67, respectively, and RMSEs 9.49% and 6.09% vol/vol respectively. The domain-averaged correlations and RMSEs suggest that radiometer is more accurate than scatterometer in retrieving soil moisture. The analysis also demonstrates that the accuracy of the retrieved soil moisture is affected by vegetation coverage and spatial aggregation.
 
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