NASA Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Land Surface Working Group (LSWG)

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Recent LSWG Publications

Turk, F. Joseph, Ziad S. Haddad, Yalei You, 2014: Principal Components of Multifrequency Microwave Land Surface Emissivities. Part I: Estimation under Clear and Precipitating Conditions. J. Hydrometeor., 15, 3-19. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-13-08.1

You, Yalei, F. Joseph Turk, Ziad S. Haddad, Li Li, Guosheng Liu, 2014: Principal Components of Multifrequency Microwave Land Surface Emissivities. Part II: Effects of Previous-Time Precipitation. J. Hydrometeor., 15, 20-37. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-13-07.1

Li, R. and Q. Min, 2013: Dynamic response of microwave land surface properties to precipitation in Amazon rainforest. Remote Sens. Environ., 133, 183-192. (PDF file)

Ringerud, S., C. Kummerow, C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, and K. Harrison, 2013: A comparison of microwave window channel retrieved and forward-modeled emissivities over the US Southern Great Plains, IEEE Trans. Geophys. Remote Sens., doi:10.1109/TGRS.2013.2260759.

Ferraro, R., C. Peters-Lidard, C. Hernandez, F. J. Turk, F. Aires, C. Prigent, X. Lin, S. Boukabara, F. Furuzawa, K. Gopalan, K. Harrison, F. Karbou, L. Li, C. Liu, H. Masunaga, L. Moy, S. Ringerud, G. Skofronick-Jackson, Y. Tian, and N.-Y. Wang, 2013: An evaluation of microwave land surface emissivities over the continental United States to benefit GPM-era precipitation algorithms, IEEE Trans. Geophys. Remote Sens., 51, 378-398, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2012.2199121.

Tian, Y., C. D. Peters-Lidard, K. W. Harrison, C. Prigent, H. Norouzi, F. Aires, S.-A. Boukabara, F. A. Furuzawa, and H. Masunaga, 2013: Quantifying uncertainties in land surface microwave emissivity retrievals. IEEE Trans. Geophys. Remote Sens., doi:10.1109/TGRS.2013.2244214.