Multi-year SMOS brightness temperature monitoring (Jul-22)

Title
Multi-year SMOS brightness temperature monitoring (Jul-22)
Report
Date Published
02/2023
Series/Collection
ESA Contract Report
Author
Pete Weston
Abstract

This document summarises the technical setup, production and results from 11 years of NWP-based monitoring of brightness temperatures from the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite. The observations are compared against a stable NWP baseline provided from the ERA5 reanalysis and transformed into observation space using the Community Microwave Emissivity Model (CMEM).

URL https://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/81344-multi-year-smos-brightness-temperature-monitoring-jul-22
DOI 10.21957/02c8d9b572