Evaluation of SMAP downscaled brightness temperature observations using airborne data in Australia

Nan Ye1, Jeffrey P Walker2, Xiaoling Wu3, Christoph Rudiger1, Thomas J Jackson4, Rajat Bindlish5, Narendra N Das6, Dara Entekhabi7, Anouk Gevaert8, Richard A.M. de Jeu9 and Simon H Yueh10, (1)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (2)Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton, VIC, Australia, (3)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, (4)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (8)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (9)Transmissivity B.V., Noordwijk, Netherlands, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Scientific Team Name: Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia