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Review article
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22 Nov 2018
Review article |
| 22 Nov 2018
| 22 Nov 2018
Northern Hemisphere surface freeze–thaw product from Aquarius L-band radiometers
Michael Prince
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Centre d'Applications et de Recherches en Télédétection
(CARTEL), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
Centre d'Étude Nordique, Québec, Canada
Alexandre Roy
Département des Sciences de l'Environnement, Université du
Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC G9A5H7, Canada
Centre d'Étude Nordique, Québec, Canada
Centre d'Applications et de Recherches en Télédétection
(CARTEL), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
Ludovic Brucker
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory,
Code 615, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Universities Space Research Association, Goddard Earth Sciences
Technology and Research Studies and investigations, Columbia, MD 21044, USA
Alain Royer
Centre d'Applications et de Recherches en Télédétection
(CARTEL), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
Centre d'Étude Nordique, Québec, Canada
Youngwook Kim
Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, College of Forestry &
Conservation, the University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
Tianjie Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote
Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Deep learning estimation of northern hemisphere soil freeze-thaw dynamics using satellite multi-frequency microwave brightness temperature observations K. Donahue et al. 10.3389/fdata.2023.1243559
- Freeze–Thaw Detection Over High-Latitude Regions by Means of GNSS-R Data K. Rautiainen et al. 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3125315
- Comparing global passive microwave freeze/thaw records: Investigating differences between Ka- and L-band products J. Johnston et al. 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111936
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Short summary
This paper presents the weekly polar-gridded Aquarius passive L-band surface freeze–thaw product (FT-AP) distributed on the EASE-Grid 2.0 with a resolution of 36 km. To evaluate the product, we compared it with the resampled 37 GHz FT Earth Science Data Record during the overlapping period between 2011 and 2014. The FT-AP ensures, with the SMAP mission that is still in operation, an L-band passive FT monitoring continuum with NASA’s space-borne radiometers, for a period beginning in August 2011.
This paper presents the weekly polar-gridded Aquarius passive L-band surface freeze–thaw product...
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