TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruston, Benjamin
AU  - Karbou, Fatima
AU  - Trigo, Isabel F.
AU  - Balsamo, Gianpaolo
AU  - Escobar, Vanessa M.
AU  - Drusch, Matthias
AU  - Mecklenburg, Susanne
AB  - The representation of the Earth's surface in global monitoring and forecasting applications is moving towards capturing more of the relevant processes, while maintaining elevated computational efficiency and therefore a moderate complexity. These schemes are developed and continuously improved thanks to well instrumented field-sites that can observe coupled processes occurring at the surface–atmosphere interface (e.g., forest, grassland, cropland areas and diverse climate zones). Approaching global kilometer-scale resolutions, in situ observations alone cannot fulfil the modelling needs, and the use of satellite observation becomes essential to guide modelling innovation and to calibrate and validate new parameterization schemes that can support data assimilation applications. In this book, we review some of the recent contributions, highlighting how satellite data are used to inform Earth surface model development (vegetation state and seasonality, soil moisture conditions, surface temperature and turbulent fluxes, land-use change detection, agricultural indicators and irrigation) when moving towards global km-scale resolutions.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03921-065-7
ID  - OAPEN ID: 42495
KW  - direct and inverse methods
KW  - absorption coefficient
KW  - emissivity
KW  - land-surface model
KW  - n/a
KW  - variational retrieval
KW  - temporal autocorrelation
KW  - Bayesian bias correction
KW  - hyperspectral
KW  - infrared
KW  - BRDF
KW  - satellite rainfall
KW  - MCD43C1
KW  - penetration depth
KW  - RTTOV
KW  - earth-observations
KW  - earth system modelling
KW  - representative depth
KW  - land
KW  - Changjiang (Yangtze) estuary
KW  - CDOM
KW  - soil moisture
KW  - surface
KW  - Maqu network
KW  - surface soil moisture
KW  - MODIS
KW  - soil effective temperature
KW  - GOCI
KW  - microwave remote sensing
KW  - rain gauge
KW  - QAA inversion
KW  - broadband emissivity
KW  - radiation
KW  - surface parameters
KW  - satellite data
KW  - East Africa
L1  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1510
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/40380
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783039210640
SN  - 9783039210657
TI  - Advancing Earth Surface Representation via Enhanced Use of Earth Observations in Monitoring and Forecasting Applicationsnull
ER  - 
