CMEM: Community Microwave Emission Modelling Platform

CMEM Documentation

Modelling platform description

This page provides a complete description of the CMEM platform, including CMEM's implementation strategy, as well as its structure and physical parameterisations.

Publications and reports

This page provides a list of references of publications from ECMWF and related to SMOS or CMEM.

Presentations

This page gives access to the pdf files of conference and workshop presentations providing information on CMEM development and scientific applications.

Related Projects

On this page, links to projects related to CMEM are provided.

Related Publications and Documentation

ATBD, SMOS., 2007 : SMOS Expert Support Laboratories, SMOS level 2 Processor for Soil Moisture Algorithm Theoretical Based Document (ATBD). SOTN- ESL-SM-GS-0001, issue 2.a, p. 124.

Choudhury, B., T. Schmugge, and T. Mo, 1982 : A parameterization of effective soil temperature for microwave emission. J. Geophys. Res., pp. 13011304.

Deblonde, G., 2000: Evaluation of FASTEM and FASTEM2, NWP-SAF Report Series (pdf), 33 pp.

Peplinski, N.R., F. T. Ulaby and M.C. Dobson, 1995: Dielectric Properties of Soils in the 0.3-1.3 GHz Range, IEEE TGRS, 33(3), May 1995.

Pellarin,T., J.-P. Wigneron, J.-C. Calvet, and P.~Waldteufel, 2003: Global soil moisture retrieval from a synthetic L-band brightness temperature data set, J. Geophys. Res. (Atmospheres), 108, 4364, doi:10.1029/2002JD003086.

Saunders, R.W., M. Matricardi, and P. Brunel, 1999: An improved fast radiative transfer model for assimilation of satellite radiance observations, Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 125, 1407--1425.

Jackson, T., and T. Schmugge, 1991 : Vegetation effects on the microwave emission of soils. Remote sens. environ., 36,203212.

Pulliainen, J. T., M. T. Hallikainen, and J. Grandell, 1999: Hut snow emission model and its applicability to snow water equivalent retrieval, IEEE Trans. Geos. Remot. Sens, 37, 1378–1390

Wigneron, J.P., Y.H. Kerr, P. Waldteufel, K. Saleh, P. Richaume, P. Ferrazoli, M.-J. Escorihuela, J.P. Grant, B. Hornbuckel, P. de Rosnay, T. Pellarin, R. Gurney, and C. Maetzler, 2007: L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) model: Results from calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields, IEEE Trans. Geos. Remot. Sens, 107, 639-655.