Articles | Volume 20, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-3263-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-3263-2016
Research article
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11 Aug 2016
Research article |  | 11 Aug 2016

Cloud tolerance of remote-sensing technologies to measure land surface temperature

Thomas R. H. Holmes, Christopher R. Hain, Martha C. Anderson, and Wade T. Crow

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We test the cloud tolerance of two technologies to estimate land surface temperature (LST) from space: microwave (MW) and thermal infrared (TIR). Although TIR has slightly lower errors than MW with ground data under clear-sky conditions, it suffers increasing negative bias as cloud cover increases. In contrast, we find no direct impact of clouds on the accuracy and bias of MW-LST. MW-LST can therefore be used to improve TIR cloud screening and increase sampling in clouded regions.