Using NASA'S Long Term Data Record version 3 for the monitoring of land surface vegetation

Author(s):  
J. A. Sobrino ◽  
Y. Julien ◽  
C. Mattar ◽  
R. Oltra-Carrio ◽  
J. C. Jimenez-Munoz ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 1941
Author(s):  
Jean-Louis Roujean ◽  
Shunlin Liang ◽  
Tao He

Land surface (bare soil, vegetation, and snow) albedo is an essential climate variable that affects the Earth’s radiation budget, and therefore, is of vital interest for a broad number of applications: Thematic (urban, cryosphere, land cover, and bare soil), climate (Long Term Data Record), processing technics (gap filling, data merging), and products validation (cal/val) [...]


2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 2008-2030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanjie Zhang ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
Zekun Lin ◽  
Joseph A. Santanello ◽  
Zhiqiu Gao

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 940 ◽  
Author(s):  
José García-Lázaro ◽  
José Moreno-Ruiz ◽  
David Riaño ◽  
Manuel Arbelo

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean M. Davis ◽  
Karen H. Rosenlof ◽  
Birgit Hassler ◽  
Dale F. Hurst ◽  
William G. Read ◽  
...  

Abstract. In this paper, we describe the construction of the Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) database, which includes vertically resolved ozone and water vapor data from limb profiling satellite instruments operating since the 1980’s. SWOOSH includes both individual satellite source data as well as a merged data product. A key aspect of the merged product is that the source records are homogenized to account for inter-satellite biases and to minimize artificial jumps in the record. We describe the SWOOSH homogenization process, which involves adjusting the satellite data records to a “reference” satellite using coincident observations during time periods of instrument overlap. The reference satellite is chosen based on the best agreement with independent balloon-based sounding measurements, with the goal of producing a long-term data record that is both homogeneous and accurate. This paper details the choice of reference measurements, homogenization, and gridding process involved in the construction of the combined SWOOSH product, and also presents the ancillary information stored in SWOOSH that can be used in future studies of water vapor and ozone variability. Furthermore, a discussion of uncertainties in the combined SWOOSH record is presented, and examples of the SWOOSH record are provided to illustrate its use for studies of ozone and water vapor variability on interannual to decadal time scales. The version 2.5 SWOOSH data are publicly available at https://data.noaa.gov/dataset/stratospheric-water-and-ozone-satellite-homogenized-swoosh-data-set.


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