Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1027-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1027-2023
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16 Mar 2023
Research article |  | 16 Mar 2023

Assessing the sensitivity of multi-frequency passive microwave vegetation optical depth to vegetation properties

Luisa Schmidt, Matthias Forkel, Ruxandra-Maria Zotta, Samuel Scherrer, Wouter A. Dorigo, Alexander Kuhn-Régnier, Robin van der Schalie, and Marta Yebra

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Vegetation attenuates natural microwave emissions from the land surface. The strength of this attenuation is quantified as the vegetation optical depth (VOD) parameter and is influenced by the vegetation mass, structure, water content, and observation wavelength. Here we model the VOD signal as a multi-variate function of several descriptive vegetation variables. The results help in understanding the effects of ecosystem properties on VOD.
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