The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter–incidence angle relationship in the Amazon

Petchiappan, Ashwini; Steele-Dunne, Susan C.; Vreugdenhil, Mariette; Hahn, Sebastian; Wagner, Wolfgang; Oliveira, Rafael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2997-2022

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The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter–incidence angle relationship in the Amazon

Ashwini Petchiappan, Susan C. Steele-Dunne, Mariette Vreugdenhil, Sebastian Hahn, Wolfgang Wagner, and Rafael Oliveira

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Data sets

Copernicus Global Land Service: Land Cover 100 m: collection 3: epoch 2015: Globe M. Buchhorn, B. Smets, L. Bertels, B. D. Roo, M. Lesiv, N.-E. Tsendbazar, M. Herold, and S. Fritz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3939038

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How vegetation responds to changing climate will have large implications for our global carbon and water cycles. This study shows the potential of using C-band scatterometer data to investigate vegetation status-- with over a 30 year record. Many applications related to biosphere-atmosphere interactions could potentially develop from here and improve weather and climate predictions, and model evaluation in terms of their representation of vegetation dynamics.