On the Effect of Surface Emissivity on Temperature Retrievals

1 December 1977

journal article
Published by American Meteorological Society in Monthly Weather Review

Vol. 105 (12) , 1605-1608
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1977)105<1605:oteose>2.0.co;2

Abstract

The variability of surface emissivity over land, and the resultant error in retrieved surface and atmospheric temperatures due to use of an incorrect surface emissivity in inverting infrared radiance observations, are discussed and found to be significant.

Keywords

ATMOSPHERIC
INCORRECT SURFACE
INVERTING INFRARED
SURFACE EMISSIVITY
TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS