A land surface process radiobrightness model with coupled heat and moisture transport for prairie grassland

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Title:	A land surface process radiobrightness model with coupled heat and moisture transport for prairie grassland
Authors:	Liou,YA;Galantowicz,JF;England,AW
Contributors:	太空及遙測研究中心
Keywords:	MICROWAVE DIELECTRIC BEHAVIOR;LONG-WAVE-RADIATION;SOIL-MOISTURE;BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE;VEGETATION INDEXES;BIOSPHERE MODEL;WET SOIL;PARAMETERS;ATMOSPHERE;ALBEDO
Date:	1999
Issue Date:	2010-06-29 18:51:43 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	中央大學
Abstract:	We present a biophysically based, one-dimensional hydrology/radiobrightness (1dH/R) model for prairie grassland that is subject to solar heating, radiant heating and cooling, precipitation, and sensible and latent heat exchanges with the atmosphere. The 1dH/R model consists of two modules, a one-dimensional hydrology (1dH) module that estimates the temperature and moisture profiles of the soil and the canopy and a microwave emission module that predicts radiobrightness (R), We validate the 1dHR model by comparing its predictions with data from a field experiment. The model was forced by meteorological and sky radiance data from our Radiobrightness Energy Balance Experiment (REBEX-1) on prairie grassland near Sioux Falls, SD, during the fall and winter of 1992-1993, Model predictions were compared with 995 consecutive REBEX-1 observations over a 14-day period in October. Average errors (predicted-measured) for canopy temperature are 1.1 K with a variance of 3.72 K-2, for soil temperatures at 2-, 4-, 8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-cm depths are 2 K with a variance of 4 K-2 and for H-polarized brightnesses are 0.06 K with a variance df 1.30 K-2 at 19 GHz and 6.01 K with a variance of 6.04 K-2 at 37 GHz. The model overestimates the 37-GHz brightness because me have not included scatter darkening within the vegetation canopy in the model, We use the 1dH/R model to simulate a 60-day dry-down of prairie grassland in summer. For grass with a column density of 3.7 kg/m(2) and soil with an initially uniform moisture content of 38% by volume, the upper 5 mm of soil dries to 27% by the end of the simulation. The corresponding L-band brightness increases from an initial 143 K to a final 163 K. In contrast, none of the special sensor microwave/imager (SSM/I) radiobrightnesses nor the radiobrightness thermal inertia (RTI) technique, either at L-band or at any SSM/I frequency, exhibits significant sensitivity to the soil dry-down.
Relation:	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Appears in Collections:	[Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research ] journal & Dissertation

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