Development of a high spectral resolution surface albedo product for the ARM Southern Great Plains Central Facility

McFarlane, Sally A; Gaustad, Krista L; Mlawer, Eli J; Long, Charles N; Delamere, Jennifer

doi:10.5194/amt-4-1713-2011

Title: Development of a high spectral resolution surface albedo product for the ARM Southern Great Plains Central Facility

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We present a method for identifying dominant surface type and estimating high spectral resolution surface albedo at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) facility at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site in Oklahoma for use in radiative transfer calculations. Given a set of 6-channel narrowband visible and near-infrared irradiance measurements from upward and downward looking multi-filter radiometers (MFRs), four different surface types (snow-covered, green vegetation, partial vegetation, non-vegetated) can be identified. A normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is used to distinguish between vegetated and non-vegetated surfaces, and a scaled NDVI index is used to estimate the percentage of green vegetation in partially vegetated surfaces. Based on libraries of spectral albedo measurements, a piecewise continuous function is developed to estimate the high spectral resolution surface albedo for each surface type given the MFR albedo values as input. For partially vegetated surfaces, the albedo is estimated as a linear combination of the green vegetation and non-vegetated surface albedo values. The estimated albedo values are evaluated through comparison to high spectral resolution albedo measurements taken during several Intensive Observational Periods (IOPs) and through comparison of the integrated spectral albedo values to observed broadband albedo measurements. The estimated spectral albedo values agree well with observationsmore »« less

Authors:: McFarlane, Sally A; Gaustad, Krista L; Mlawer, Eli J; Long, Charles N; Delamere, Jennifer

Publication Date:: Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011

Research Org.:: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1025663

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-79416
KP1704010; TRN: US201120%%674

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 4(9):1713-1733

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 9

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ALBEDO; PLANTS; RADIANT FLUX DENSITY; RADIANT HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATIONS; RADIOMETERS; RESOLUTION; WAVELENGTHS

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                    McFarlane, Sally A, Gaustad, Krista L, Mlawer, Eli J, Long, Charles N, and Delamere, Jennifer. Development of a high spectral resolution surface albedo product for the ARM Southern Great Plains Central Facility.  United States: N. p., 2011. 
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                    McFarlane, Sally A, Gaustad, Krista L, Mlawer, Eli J, Long, Charles N, & Delamere, Jennifer. Development of a high spectral resolution surface albedo product for the ARM Southern Great Plains Central Facility.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-1713-2011

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                    McFarlane, Sally A, Gaustad, Krista L, Mlawer, Eli J, Long, Charles N, and Delamere, Jennifer. 2011.  
        "Development of a high spectral resolution surface albedo product for the ARM Southern Great Plains Central Facility".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-1713-2011.

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@article{osti_1025663,

  title        = {Development of a high spectral resolution surface albedo product for the ARM Southern Great Plains Central Facility},

  author       = {McFarlane, Sally A and Gaustad, Krista L and Mlawer, Eli J and Long, Charles N and Delamere, Jennifer},

  abstractNote = {We present a method for identifying dominant surface type and estimating high spectral resolution surface albedo at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) facility at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site in Oklahoma for use in radiative transfer calculations. Given a set of 6-channel narrowband visible and near-infrared irradiance measurements from upward and downward looking multi-filter radiometers (MFRs), four different surface types (snow-covered, green vegetation, partial vegetation, non-vegetated) can be identified. A normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is used to distinguish between vegetated and non-vegetated surfaces, and a scaled NDVI index is used to estimate the percentage of green vegetation in partially vegetated surfaces. Based on libraries of spectral albedo measurements, a piecewise continuous function is developed to estimate the high spectral resolution surface albedo for each surface type given the MFR albedo values as input. For partially vegetated surfaces, the albedo is estimated as a linear combination of the green vegetation and non-vegetated surface albedo values. The estimated albedo values are evaluated through comparison to high spectral resolution albedo measurements taken during several Intensive Observational Periods (IOPs) and through comparison of the integrated spectral albedo values to observed broadband albedo measurements. The estimated spectral albedo values agree well with observations for the visible wavelengths constrained by the MFR measurements, but have larger biases and variability at longer wavelengths. Additional MFR channels at 1100 nm and/or 1600 nm would help constrain the high resolution spectral albedo in the near infrared region.},

  doi          = {10.5194/amt-4-1713-2011},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1025663},
  journal      = {Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 4(9):1713-1733},
number       = 9,

  volume       = 4,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011},

  month        = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2011}

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