Evaluating Consistency of Snow Water Equivalent Retrievals from Passive Microwave Sensors over the North Central U. S.: SSM/I vs. SSMIS and AMSR-E vs. AMSR2
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Study Area
3. Data and Preprocessing
3.1. SSM/I and SSMIS SWE
3.2. AMSR2 and AMSR-E SWE
4. Methods
5. Results and Discussions
5.1. Comparison between SSM/I and SSMIS SWE
5.2. Comparison of AMSR-E and AMSR2 SWE with SSMIS SWE
5.3. Spatial Bias Comparison between AMSR-E and AMSR2 with SSMIS SWE
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Bias (mm) | R2 | ||||||
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Snow Class | Warm Forest | Prairie | Maritime | Warm Forest | Prairie | Maritime | |
AMSR-E & SSM/I | 2003 | −2.23 | −6.06 | −4.12 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.91 |
2004 | −2.61 | −7.35 | −1.22 | 0.74 | 0.77 | 0.77 | |
2005 | −0.37 | −4.51 | −2.11 | 0.82 | 0.80 | 0.83 | |
2006 | −3.85 | −5.88 | −2.17 | 0.79 | 0.87 | 0.86 | |
Aver. | −2.26 | −5.95 | −2.41 | 0.79 | 0.82 | 0.84 | |
AMSR-E & SSMIS | 2008 | 11.24 | −1.94 | 0.31 | 0.92 | 0.89 | 0.83 |
2009 | 7.48 | −1.60 | 0.31 | 0.90 | 0.89 | 0.92 | |
2010 | 4.82 | −3.99 | 0.36 | 0.95 | 0.90 | 0.90 | |
2011 | 6.14 | −3.51 | 0.47 | 0.90 | 0.86 | 0.69 | |
Aver. | 7.42 | −2.76 | 0.36 | 0.92 | 0.88 | 0.84 | |
AMSR2 & SSMIS | 2013 | 14.94 | −1.94 | 4.73 | 0.79 | 0.76 | 0.82 |
2014 | 16.78 | 0.00 | 1.55 | 0.85 | 0.85 | 0.84 | |
2015 | 9.93 | 1.50 | 2.15 | 0.77 | 0.81 | 0.81 | |
2016 | 3.02 | −4.46 | −0.59 | 0.92 | 0.87 | 0.81 | |
Aver. | 11.16 | −1.22 | 1.96 | 0.83 | 0.82 | 0.82 |
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Cho, E.; Tuttle, S.E.; Jacobs, J.M. Evaluating Consistency of Snow Water Equivalent Retrievals from Passive Microwave Sensors over the North Central U. S.: SSM/I vs. SSMIS and AMSR-E vs. AMSR2. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 465. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9050465
Cho E, Tuttle SE, Jacobs JM. Evaluating Consistency of Snow Water Equivalent Retrievals from Passive Microwave Sensors over the North Central U. S.: SSM/I vs. SSMIS and AMSR-E vs. AMSR2. Remote Sensing. 2017; 9(5):465. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9050465
Chicago/Turabian StyleCho, Eunsang, Samuel E. Tuttle, and Jennifer M. Jacobs. 2017. "Evaluating Consistency of Snow Water Equivalent Retrievals from Passive Microwave Sensors over the North Central U. S.: SSM/I vs. SSMIS and AMSR-E vs. AMSR2" Remote Sensing 9, no. 5: 465. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9050465