Upgrade and extension of LSA-SAF land surface albedo archive from EPS Metop/AVHRR: description and quality assessment

ETAL is the operational EPS Ten-Day Albedo product, produced by the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility for Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF). By back-processing the full catalogue of EPS-Metop radiance data from September 2007 to June 2021, we are able to 1) extend the temporal coverage (previous...

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Main Authors: Anthéa Delmotte, Daniel Juncu, Xavier Ceamanos, Isabel F. Trigo, Sandra Gomes
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22797254.2023.2300043
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Daniel Juncu
Xavier Ceamanos
Isabel F. Trigo
Sandra Gomes
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description ETAL is the operational EPS Ten-Day Albedo product, produced by the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility for Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF). By back-processing the full catalogue of EPS-Metop radiance data from September 2007 to June 2021, we are able to 1) extend the temporal coverage (previously the archive only went back to 2015) and 2) improve the product archive that was based on near-real time (NRT) processing; the second point is achieved by using reanalyses instead of forecasts of atmospheric conditions and by not being exposed to missing data in the NRT radiance inputs. We present this reprocessed part of the ETAL data set, called ETAL-R, and assess its quality and consistency with respect to the original archive of NRT ETAL data (for the overlapping period 2015–2021), as well as its accuracy compared to albedo from MODIS and ground stations. ETAL-R exhibits reliable long-term stability and increased homogeneity compared to the NRT archive, and the comparison against the additional reference data shows satisfactory accuracy. Overall, ETAL-R is shown to be very consistent with the ETAL NRT archive while – under certain circumstances – improving it.
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spelling doaj-art-ca0ebeb7d9eb4d209358477aad89fe052025-08-20T02:33:44ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEuropean Journal of Remote Sensing2279-72542024-12-0157110.1080/22797254.2023.2300043Upgrade and extension of LSA-SAF land surface albedo archive from EPS Metop/AVHRR: description and quality assessmentAnthéa Delmotte0Daniel Juncu1Xavier Ceamanos2Isabel F. Trigo3Sandra Gomes4CNRM, Météo-France, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, FranceCNRM, Météo-France, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, FranceCNRM, Météo-France, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, FranceInstituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Lisbon, PortugalInstituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Lisbon, PortugalETAL is the operational EPS Ten-Day Albedo product, produced by the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility for Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF). By back-processing the full catalogue of EPS-Metop radiance data from September 2007 to June 2021, we are able to 1) extend the temporal coverage (previously the archive only went back to 2015) and 2) improve the product archive that was based on near-real time (NRT) processing; the second point is achieved by using reanalyses instead of forecasts of atmospheric conditions and by not being exposed to missing data in the NRT radiance inputs. We present this reprocessed part of the ETAL data set, called ETAL-R, and assess its quality and consistency with respect to the original archive of NRT ETAL data (for the overlapping period 2015–2021), as well as its accuracy compared to albedo from MODIS and ground stations. ETAL-R exhibits reliable long-term stability and increased homogeneity compared to the NRT archive, and the comparison against the additional reference data shows satisfactory accuracy. Overall, ETAL-R is shown to be very consistent with the ETAL NRT archive while – under certain circumstances – improving it.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22797254.2023.2300043Surface albedoAVHRRMetopLSA-SAFEUMETSAT
spellingShingle Anthéa Delmotte
Daniel Juncu
Xavier Ceamanos
Isabel F. Trigo
Sandra Gomes
Upgrade and extension of LSA-SAF land surface albedo archive from EPS Metop/AVHRR: description and quality assessment
European Journal of Remote Sensing
Surface albedo
AVHRR
Metop
LSA-SAF
EUMETSAT
title Upgrade and extension of LSA-SAF land surface albedo archive from EPS Metop/AVHRR: description and quality assessment
title_full Upgrade and extension of LSA-SAF land surface albedo archive from EPS Metop/AVHRR: description and quality assessment
title_fullStr Upgrade and extension of LSA-SAF land surface albedo archive from EPS Metop/AVHRR: description and quality assessment
title_full_unstemmed Upgrade and extension of LSA-SAF land surface albedo archive from EPS Metop/AVHRR: description and quality assessment
title_short Upgrade and extension of LSA-SAF land surface albedo archive from EPS Metop/AVHRR: description and quality assessment
title_sort upgrade and extension of lsa saf land surface albedo archive from eps metop avhrr description and quality assessment
topic Surface albedo
AVHRR
Metop
LSA-SAF
EUMETSAT
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22797254.2023.2300043
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