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Publications Citing SSMIS Data
Browse a list of academic papers that cite data provided by NASA’s Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS).
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| Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Extent and Thickness of Arctic Landfast Ice | Li, Zixuan, Zhao, Jiechen, Su, Jie, Li, Chunhua, Cheng, Bin, Hui, Fengming, Yang, Qinghua, Shi, Lijuan | Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Density, Snow Depth | ||
| Interannual Variability of Atmospheric Conditions and Surface Melt in Greenland in 20002014 | Valisuo, I., Vihma, T., Pirazzini, R., Schafer, M. | Snow Melt, Snow Melt | ||
| ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks | Krinner, Gerhard, Derksen, Chris, Essery, Richard, Flanner, Mark, Hagemann, Stefan, Clark, Martyn, Hall, Alex, Rott, Helmut, Brutel-Vuilmet, Claire, Kim, Hyungjun, Menard, Cecile B., Mudryk, Lawrence, Thackeray, Chad, Wang, Libo, Arduini, Gabriele, Balsamo, Gianpaolo, Bartlett, Paul, Boike, Julia, Boone, Aaron, Cheruy, Frederique, Colin, Jeanne, Cuntz, Matthias, Dai, Yongjiu, Decharme, Bertrand, Derry, Jeff, Ducharne, Agnes, Dutra, Emanuel, Fang, Xing, Fierz, Charles, Ghattas, Josephine, Gusev, Yeugeniy, Haverd, Vanessa, Kontu, Anna, Lafaysse, Matthieu, Law, Rachel, Lawrence, Dave, Li, Weiping, Marke, Thomas, Marks, Danny, Menegoz, Martin, Nasonova, Olga, Nitta, Tomoko, Niwano, Masashi, Pomeroy, John, Raleigh, Mark S., Schaedler, Gerd, Semenov, Vladimir, Smirnova, Tanya G., Stacke, Tobias, Strasser, Ulrich, Svenson, Sean, Turkov, Dmitry, Wang, Tao, Wever, Nander, Yuan, Hua, Zhou, Wenyan, Zhu, Dan | Snow Cover, Snow Cover | ||
| Evaluation of a MetOp ASCAT-Derived Surface Soil Moisture Product in Tundra Environments | Hogstrom, Elin, Heim, Birgit, Bartsch, Annett, Bergstedt, Helena, Pointner, Georg | Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover | ||
| Estimating regional-scale methane flux and budgets using CARVE aircraft measurements over Alaska | Hartery, Sean, Commane, Roisin, Lindaas, Jakob, Sweeney, Colm, Henderson, John, Mountain, Marikate, Steiner, Nicholas, McDonald, Kyle, Dinardo, Steven J., Miller, Charles E., Wofsy, Steven C., Chang, Rachel Y.-W. | Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Water Vapor, Freeze/Thaw, Snow Melt, Freeze/Thaw, Snow Melt, Boundary Layer Winds |
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| Evaluation of remotely sensed snow water equivalent and snow cover extent over the contiguous United States | Dawson, Nicholas, Broxton, Patrick, Zeng, Xubin | Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Cover, Snow Cover | ||
| Greenland ice sheet surface melt and its relation to daily atmospheric conditions | Cullather, Richard I., Nowicki, Sophie M. J. | Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties, Albedo, Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Heat Flux, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Profiles, Relative Humidity, Ozone Profiles, Snow Melt, Snow Melt |
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| Isolating the Liquid Cloud Response to Recent Arctic Sea Ice Variability | Morrison, A. L., Kay, J. E., Chepfer, H., Guzman, R., Yettella, V. | Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover | ||
| Polarization-corrected temperatures for 10-, 19-, 37-, and 89-GHz passive microwave frequencies | Cecil, Daniel J., Chronis, Themis | Atmospheric Water Vapor, Precipitation, Brightness Temperature, Sensor Counts, THERMAL INFRARED, THERMAL INFRARED, Attitude Characteristics, VIEWING GEOMETRY, SENSOR COUNTS, VISIBLE IMAGERY, Visible Radiance |
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| A regime-dependent retrieval algorithm for near-surface air temperature and specific humidity from multi-microwave sensors | Yu, Lisan, Jin, Xiangze | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress | ||
| Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons | Stroeve, Julienne, Notz, Dirk | Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Density, Snow Depth | ||
| Atmospheric River Impacts on Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance | Mattingly, K. S., Mote, T. L., Fettweis, X. | Snow Melt, Snow Melt | ||
| Comparison of Freeboard Retrieval and Ice Thickness Calculation From ALS, ASIRAS, and CryoSat-2 in the Norwegian Arctic to Field Measurements Made During the N-ICE2015 Expedition | King, Jennifer, Skourup, Henriette, Hvidegaard, Sine M., Rosel, Anja, Gerland, Sebastian, Spreen, Gunnar, Polashenski, Chris, Helm, Veit, Liston, Glen E. | Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Density, Snow Depth | ||
| On the simulations of global oceanic latent heat flux in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble | Zhang, Rongwang, Wang, Xin, Wang, Chunzai | Sea Level Pressure, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress | ||
| NHMSMAP: spatially and temporally high-resolution nonhydrostatic atmospheric model coupled with detailed snow process model for Greenland Ice Sheet | Niwano, Masashi, Aoki, Teruo, Hashimoto, Akihiro, Matoba, Sumito, Yamaguchi, Satoru, Tanikawa, Tomonori, Fujita, Koji, Tsushima, Akane, Iizuka, Yoshinori, Shimada, Rigen, Hori, Masahiro | Snow Melt, Snow Melt | ||
| Quantifying vulnerability of Antarctic ice shelves to hydrofracture using microwave scattering properties | Alley, K.E., Scambos, T.A., Miller, J.Z., Long, D.G., MacFerrin, M. | Snow Melt, Snow Melt | ||
| Regional intensification of the tropical hydrological cycle during ENSO | Stephens, Graeme L., Hakuba, Maria Z., Webb, Mark J., Lebsock, Matthew, Yue, Qing, Kahn, Brian H., HristovaVeleva, Svetla, Rapp, Anita D., Stubenrauch, Claudia J., Elsaesser, Gregory S., Slingo, Julia | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | ||
| The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment archive of water vapour products from satellite observations and reanalyses | Schroder, Marc, Lockhoff, Maarit, Fell, Frank, Forsythe, John, Trent, Tim, Bennartz, Ralf, Borbas, Eva, Bosilovich, Michael G., Castelli, Elisa, Hersbach, Hans, Kachi, Misako, Kobayashi, Shinya, Kursinski, E. Robert, Loyola, Diego, Mears, Carl, Preusker, Rene, Rossow, William B., Saha, Suranjana | Total Precipitable Water, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Water Vapor Indicators | ||
| Spring photosynthetic onset and net CO2 uptake in Alaska triggered by landscape thawing | Parazoo, Nicholas C., Arneth, Almut, Pugh, Thomas A. M., Smith, Ben, Steiner, Nicholas, Luus, Kristina, Commane, Roisin, Benmergui, Josh, Stofferahn, Eric, Liu, Junjie, Rodenbeck, Christian, Kawa, Randy, Euskirchen, Eugenie, Zona, Donatella, Arndt, Kyle, Oechel, Walt, Miller, Charles | Primary Production, Respiration Rate, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Freeze/Thaw, Snow Melt, Freeze/Thaw, Snow Melt | ||
| Uncertainty characterization of HOAPS 3.3 latent heat-flux-related parameters | Liman, Julian, Schroder, Marc, Fennig, Karsten, Andersson, Axel, Hollmann, Rainer | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress | ||
| Warm Arctic, Increased Winter Sea Ice Growth? | Petty, Alek A., Holland, Marika M., Bailey, David A., Kurtz, Nathan T. | Freeboard, Ice Depth/Thickness, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Density, Snow Depth | ||
| Investigating the local-scale influence of sea ice on Greenland surface melt | Stroeve, Julienne C., Mioduszewski, John R., Rennermalm, Asa, Boisvert, Linette N., Tedesco, Marco, Robinson, David | Snow Melt, Snow Melt | ||
| NASA EOSDIS data identifiers: Approach and system | Wanchoo, Lalit, James, Nathan, Ramapriyan, Hampapuram K. | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Aerosol Extinction, Geopotential Height, Chlorine Nitrate, Chlorofluorocarbons, Chlorofluorocarbons, Dinitrogen Pentoxide, Atmospheric Nitric Acid, Nitrogen Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Upper Air Temperature, Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Profiles, Cloud Top Pressure, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY |
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| Long-term impacts of ocean wave-dependent roughness on global climate | Shimura, Tomoya, Mori, Nobuhito, Takemi, Tetsuya, Mizuta, Ryo | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress | ||
| Liquid water flow and retention on the Greenland ice sheet in the regional climate model HIRHAM5: Local and large-scale impacts | Langen, Peter L., Fausto, Robert S., Vandecrux, Baptiste, Mottram, Ruth H., Box, Jason E. | Snow Melt, Snow Melt | ||
| Essence of the patterns of cover and richness of intertidal hard bottom communities: a pan-European study | Kotta, Jonne, Orav-Kotta, Helen, Janes, Holger, Hummel, Herman, Arvanitidis, Christos, Van Avesaath, Pim, Bachelet, Guy, Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro, Bojanic, Natalia, Como, Serena, Coppa, Stefania, Coughlan, Jennifer, Crowe, Tasman, Dal Bello, Martina, Degraer, Steven, De La Pena, Jose Antonio Juanes, Fernandes De Matos, Valentina Kirienko, Espinosa, Free, Faulwetter, Sarah, Frost, Matt, Guinda, Xabier, Jankowska, Emilia, Jourde, Jerome, Kerckhof, Francis, Lavesque, Nicolas, Leclerc, Jean-Charles, Magni, Paolo, Pavloudi, Christina, Pedrotti, Maria Luiza, Peleg, Ohad, Perez-Ruzafa, Angel, Puente, Araceli, Ribeiro, Pedro, Rilov, Gil, Rousou, Maria, Ruginis, Tomas, Silva, Teresa, Simon, Nathalie, Sousa-Pinto, Isabel, Troncoso, Jesus, Warzocha, Jan, Weslawski, Jan Marcin | Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Ice Concentration, Ice Extent, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Reflectance | ||
| Evaluation of cloud liquid water path trends using a multidecadal record of passive microwave observations | Manaster, Andrew, ODell, Christopher W., Elsaesser, Gregory | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | ||
| Global multisensor automated satellite-based snow and ice mapping system (GMASI) for cryosphere monitoring | Romanov, Peter | Snow Cover, Snow Cover | ||
| Maximum temperature drove snow cover expansion from the Arctic, 20002008 | Lin, Yi, Jiang, Miao | Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover | ||
| Community review of Southern Ocean satellite data needs | Pope, A., Wagner, P., Johnson, R., Shutler, J.D., Baeseman, J., Newman, L. | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Water Temperature, Water Vapor Indices, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover, Ice Velocity, Ice Velocity, Brightness Temperature |
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| Contributions of Surface Heat Fluxes and Oceanic Processes to Tropical | He, Zhuoqi, Wu, Renguang, Wang, Weiqiang, Wen, Zhiping, Wang, Dongxiao | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress | ||
| Comparison of CryoSat-2 and ENVISAT radar freeboard over Arctic sea ice: toward an improved Envisat freeboard retrieval | Guerreiro, Kevin, Fleury, Sara, Zakharova, Elena, Kouraev, Alexei, Remy, Frederique, Maisongrande, Philippe | Ice Extent, Sea Ice Age, Snow Melt | ||
| Differentiating between first-year and multiyear sea ice in the Arctic | Lee, SangMoo, Sohn, ByungJu, Kim, SeongJoong | Ice Extent, Sea Ice Age, Snow Melt | ||
| The importance of benthic-pelagic coupling for marine ecosystem functioning in a changing world | Griffiths, Jennifer R., Kadin, Martina, Nascimento, Francisco J. A., Tamelander, Tobias, Tornroos, Anna, Bonaglia, Stefano, Bonsdorff, Erik, Bruchert, Volker, Gardmark, Anna, Jarnstrom, Marie, Kotta, Jonne, Lindegren, Martin, Nordstrom, Marie C., Norkko, Alf, Olsson, Jens, Weigel, Benjamin, Zydelis, Ramunas, Blenckner, Thorsten, Niiranen, Susa, Winder, Monika | Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Ice Concentration, Sea Ice Concentration, Ice Extent | ||
| The Arctic cryosphere in the twentyfirst century | Barry, Roger G. | Snow Melt, Snow Melt | ||
| Surface reflectivity climatologies from UV to NIR determined from Earth | Tilstra, L. G., Tuinder, O. N. E., Wang, P., Stammes, P. | Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover | ||
| Marine boundary layer cloud property retrievals from high-resolution | Werner, Frank, Wind, Galina, Zhang, Zhibo, Platnick, Steven, Di Girolamo, Larry, Zhao, Guangyu, Amarasinghe, Nandana, Meyer, Kerry | Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover | ||
| Increasing water vapor transport to the Greenland Ice Sheet revealed using self-organizing maps | Mattingly, Kyle S., Ramseyer, Craig A., Rosen, Joshua J., Mote, Thomas L., Muthyala, Rohi | Snow Melt, Snow Melt | ||
| Facets of Arctic energy accumulation based on observations and | Mayer, Michael, Haimberger, Leopold, Pietschnig, Marianne, Storto, Andrea | Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover | ||
| Improvements to the OMI O2O2 operational cloud algorithm and comparisons with ground-based radarlidar observations | Veefkind, J. Pepijn, de Haan, Johan F., Sneep, Maarten, Levelt, Pieternel F. | Cloud Fraction, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover |
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| Potential sea salt aerosol sources from frost flowers in the pan-Arctic region | Xu, Li, Russell, Lynn M., Burrows, Susannah M. | Ice Extent, Sea Ice Age, Snow Melt | ||
| An OGCM study of the impact of rain and river water forcing on the Bay | Behara, Ambica, Vinayachandran, P. N. | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress | ||
| Decomposition of random errors inherent to HOAPS-3.2 near-surface humidity estimates using multiple triple collocation analysis | Kinzel, Julian, Fennig, Karsten, Schroder, Marc, Andersson, Axel, Bumke, Karl, Hollmann, Rainer | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress |
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| Retrieval of ice cloud properties using an optimal estimation algorithm | Wang, Chenxi, Platnick, Steven, Zhang, Zhibo, Meyer, Kerry, Wind, Gala, Yang, Ping | Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover | ||
| Satellite airsea enthalpy flux and intensity change of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific | Gao, Si, Zhai, Shunan, Chiu, Long S., Xia, Dong | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress | ||
| Uncertainties in cloud phase and optical thickness retrievals from the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) | Meyer, Kerry, Yang, Yuekui, Platnick, Steven | Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover | ||
| A comparison of SSM/I-derived global marine surface specific humidity datasets | Prytherch, John, Kent, Elizabeth C., Fangohr, Susanne, Berry, David I. | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress | ||
| An intermodel approach to identify the source of excessive equatorial Pacific cold tongue in CMIP5 models and uncertainty in observational datasets | Li, Gen, Du, Yan, Xu, Haiming, Ren, Baohua | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress | ||
| An Improved Liberal Cloud-Mask for Addressing Snow/Cloud Confusion with | Paull, David J., Lees, Brian G., Thompson, Jeffery A. | Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Cover | ||
| An improved near-surface specific humidity and air temperature climatology for the SSM/I satellite period | Jin, Xiangze, Yu, Lisan, Jackson, Darren L., Wick, Gary A. | Sea Level Pressure, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Evaporation, Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress, Atmospheric Heating, Heat Flux, Radiative Flux, Conduction, Evaporation, Heat Flux, Sea Level Pressure, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Turbulence, Wind Stress |
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