Priroda microwave radiometer observations in the Southern Great Plains 1997 hydrology experiment

Rationale and Strategy for a Community Modeling Platform in the Hydrologic Sciences

“…The advent of the TERRA and AQUA satellite sensor systems launched by NASA in 1999 and 2002 respectively with a number of sensors on each platform [LaMoreaux, 2001] has contributed to the availability of data for land and atmosphere for soil moisture, temperature, precipitation, vegetation, atmospheric temperature and water vapor to name a few variables. These data along with ground observations from either established in situ networks such as the Oklahoma Mesonet [Basara and Crawford, 2000] or opportunity based experiments such as the Southern Great Plains 1997 experiment (SGP97) [Jackson et al, 2002] have been assimilated in hydrological models [McLaughlin, 2002]. There has been a large body of work in the past decades that utilize satellite data [Lakshmi and Susskind, 2001;Boni et al, 2001;Walker and Houser, 2001;Lakshmi, 2000].…”

Microwave radiometry of vegetation canopies

“…Jackson et al (2002a) evaluated the Priroda observations and found that the 13 GHz radiometric sensor could provide some information on soil moisture even at the spacecraft resolution.…”

Intensity and polarization of thermal radiation of three-dimensional rain cells in the microwave band

“…Due to this and other directions of research, interaction of microwave radiation with precipitations and clouds of various types is now extensively studied [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Many of them consist of non-spherical particles, having prevalent orientation like falling raindrops.…”