CAROLS SMOS CAL/VAL Campaigns

Mehrez Zribi (1, 2) , Mickaël Pardé (1) , Jacqueline Boutin (3) , Pascal Fanise (1) , Monique Dechambre (1) , Danièle Hauser (1) , Yann H. Kerr (2) , Marion Leduc-Leballeur (1) , Gilles Reverdin (3) , Niels Skou (4) , Sten S. Søbjærg (4) , Clément Albergel (5, 6) , Jean-Christophe Calvet (5) , Jean-Pierre Wigneron (7) , Ernesto Lopez-Baeza (8) , Khaldoun Saleh (8) , Antonio Ruis (9) , Joseph Tenerelli (10)

1 ESTER - LATMOS
2 CESBIO - Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère
3 LOCEAN - Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques
4 DTU - Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark
5 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
6 ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
7 EPHYSE - Écologie fonctionnelle et physique de l'environnement
8 UV - Facultat de Fisica [València]
9 ICE-CSIC - Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai [Barcelona]
10 CLS - Collecte Localisation Satellites [Toulouse]

The CAROLS "Cooperative Airborne Radiometer for Ocean and Land Studies" L band radiometer was designed and built as a copy of the EMIRAD II radiometer constructed by the Technical University of Denmark team. It is a fully polarimetric and direct sampling correlation radiometer. CAROLS is installed on board a dedicated French ATR42 research aircraft, in conjunction with other airborne instruments. Following initial laboratory qualifications and other scientific campaigns, SMOS CAL/VAL campaigns involving 22 flights were carried out over South West France, the Valencia site and the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) in spring 2010, in coordination with in situ field campaigns

Mots clés: MISSION SMOS

Domaines: Physique Atmosphérique et Océanique [physics.ao-ph]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Mehrez Zribi, Mickaël Pardé, Jacqueline Boutin, Pascal Fanise, Monique Dechambre, et al.. CAROLS SMOS CAL/VAL Campaigns. 29th Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2011), Mar 2011, Marrakech, Morocco. pp.121-125. ⟨hal-00666534⟩