Retrieval of Emissivity and Temperature Profile in Polar Regions

The special geographical location of the polar regions increases the difficulty of modeling surface emissivity, thus the physical retrieval algorithms of the temperature and humidity profiles for microwave radiometers mainly focus on the regions between 60°S and 60°N. In this paper, the deep neural networks (DNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) models are first implemented to retrieve atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles in real time from FY-3D/MWHTS in Arctic regions and are compared with the physical retrieval algorithm. The hyperparameters of the machine learning models are determined using the grid search and 10-fold cross-validation. Results show that, compared with the physical retrieval algorithm, the retrieval accuracies of the atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles of the DNN and LSTM models in June 2021 are higher over sea ice, and the maximum retrieval accuracies are improved by about 3.5 K and 42%. Over land, the retrieval accuracies of the atmospheric temperature profiles for the DNN and LSTM models in June 2021 are improved by about 5 K. The retrieved humidity results for these two models are not compared with the physical retrieval algorithm, which fails for the humidity profile retrieval over land. In addition, the retrieval results of the DNN-based and LSTM-based models using the independent validation data in February, April, and September are also evaluated over different surface types. The RMSEs of the retrieved temperature profiles for the two models are within 4 K, except for the near-surface, and the humidity profiles are within 25%, except for in February. The temperature profiles in September and the humidity profiles in February are somewhat reduced compared to other months because of the highly variable emissivity properties in autumn and winter. Overall results show that the machine learning method can well-evaluate the retrieval capability of FY-3D/MWHTS of the atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles in Arctic regions.

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Retrieval of Emissivity and Temperature Profile in Polar Regions

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