“…Many studies investigated the retrieval performances of TES, by focusing either on calibration (Grigsby et al, 2015;Hulley, 2011;Hulley and Hook, 2011;Jimenez-Munoz et al, 2014;Payan and Royer, 2004;Sobrino and Jiménez-Muñoz, 2014) or on retrieval accuracies (French et al, 2008;Gillespie et al, 2011;Göttsche and Hulley, 2012;Hulley et al, 2012b;Jacob et al, 2004;Jiménez-Muñoz et al, 2006;Jimenez-Munoz et al, 2014;Mira et al, 2009Mira et al, , 2011Sabol et al, 2009;Sobrino et al, 2007). These studies addressed several issues among which (1) the calibration of the ε-min -MMD relationship for different sensor spectral configurations, (2) the robustness of the ε-min -MMD relationship and the TES retrieval performances with regards to emissivity variations depicted by land surfaces, and (3) the impact of experimental errors (e.g., instrumental and atmospheric perturbations) on the accuracy of TES emissivity/temperature retrievals.…”