Effects of organo-mineral structure of arctic topsoil on the own thermal radiation in the L-band

In this paper, the influence of organic-mineral Arctic tundra soils on own thermal radiation in the L-band was theoretically investigated. For modeling of brightness temperature there were used semi-empirical L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) model. An integral part of this model is permittivity models of tundra organic and mineral soils, which links the brightness temperature with moisture, temperature and density of soil. The permittivity models were developed based on the measurements of the organic rich and mineral soil samples collected at the Vaskiny Dachi weather station test-site in Yamal peninsular. As a result, the potential error of soil temperature retrieval in case of layered and homogeneous organic-mineral soil are shown based on simulated brightness temperature at 1.4 GHz.