1. FOAM Emissivity Modelling with Foam Properties Tuned by Frequency and Polarization
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Magdalena D Anguelova, Emmanuel Dinnat, Lise Kilic, Michael H Bettenhausen, Stephen English, Catherine Prigent, Thomas Meissner, Jacqueline Boutin, Stuart Newman, Ben Johnson, Simon Yueh, Masahiro Kazumori, Fuzhong Weng, Ad Stoffelen, and Christophe Accadia
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Oceanography - Abstract
We model the sea foam emissivity as a part of the work done by an international science team on developing a radiative transfer model of reference quality for the ocean surface emissivity from L band to infrared frequencies. The focus here is on the foam emissivity at frequencies from 1 to 89 GHz. Sensitivity study for different foam properties(foam layer thickness and upper limit of the foam void fraction)guided the effort to tune the model by frequency and polarization. The results show that the differences between simulated and observed brightness temperatures decrease when using tuned foam model.
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- 2022
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