Digital Earth Emissivity Information System (DEEIS)

Impact Assessments

This section presents various studies that assess the impact of improved emissivity data sets in radiative transfer and data assimilation.

  • CRTM: comparisons of radiative transfer simulations against satellite observations, when utilizing different emissivity inputs in the radiative transfer calculation
  • GDAS: impact studies in the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) using Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) with different emissivity inputs