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Snow and sea ice

Vegetation

Widlowski, J.-L., B. Pinty, T. Lavergne, M. M. Verstraete, and N. Gobron, 2006: Horizontal radiation transport in 3-D forest canopies at multiple spatial resolutions: Simulated impact on canopy absorption. Remote Sensing of Environment, 103, 379-397. [Abstract] [Full paper (PDF 1.2 MB)]

Pinty, B., T. Lavergne, R. E. Dickinson, J.-L. Widlowski, N. Gobron and M. M. Verstraete, 2006: Simplifying the interaction of land surfaces with radiation for relating remote sensing products to climate models. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D02116, doi: 10.1029/2005JD005952. [Abstract] [Full paper (PDF 1.2 MB)]

Widlowski, J.-L., T. Lavergne, B. Pinty, M. M. Verstraete and N. Gobron, 2006: Rayspread: A virtual laboratory for rapid BRF simulations over 3-D plant canopies. Computational Methods in Transport, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering Series, 48, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 211-231.

Widlowski, J.-L., B. Pinty, T. Lavergne, M. M. Verstraete and N. Gobron, 2005: Using 1-D models to interpret the reflectance anisotropy of 3-D canopy targets: Issues and caveats. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 43, 2008-2017, doi 10.1109/TGRS.2005.853718. [Abstract] [Full paper (PDF 772 KB)]

Pinty, B., J-L. Widlowski, M. Taberner, N. Gobron, M. M. Verstraete, M. Disney, F. Gascon, J.-P. Gastellu, L. Jiang, A. Kuusk, P. Lewis, X. Li, W. Ni-Meister, T. Nilson, P. North, W. Qin, L. Su, S. Tang, R. Thompson, W. Verhoef, H. Wang, J. Wang, G. Yan, and H. Zang, 2004: RAdiation transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) exercise: Results from the second phase. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D06210, doi: 10.1029/2003JD004252. [Abstract] [Full paper (PDF 972 KB)]

Pinty, B., N. Gobron, J.-L. Widlowski, T. Lavergne and M. M. Verstraete, 2004: Synergy between 1-D and 3-D radiation transfer models to retrieve vegetation canopy properties from remote sensing data. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D21205 doi: 10.1029/2004JD005214. [Abstract] [Full paper (PDF 668 KB)]

Widlowski, J.-L., B. Pinty, N. Gobron, M. M. Verstraete, D. J. Diner and A. B. Davis, 2004: Canopy Structure Parameters Derived From Multi-angular Remote Sensing Data for Terrestrial Carbon Studies. Climatic Change, 67, 403-415.

Pinty, B., J.-L. Widlowski, N. Gobron, M. M. Verstraete and D. J. Diner, 2002: Uniqueness of Multiangular Measurements Part 1: An Indicator of Subpixel Surface Heterogeneity from MISR. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., MISR Special Issue, 40, 1560-1573.

Pinty, B., N. Gobron, J.-L. Widlowski , S. A. W. Gerstl, M. M. Verstraete, M. Antunes, C. Bacour, F. Gascon, J.-P. Gastellu, N. Goel, S. Jacquemoud, P. North, W. Qin, and R. Thompson, 2001: Radiation Transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) Exercise. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 11,937-11,956. [Abstract] [Full paper (PDF 6.2 MB)]

Widlowski, J-L., B. Pinty, N. Gobron, M. M. Verstraete, and A. B. Davies, 2001: Characterization of Surface Heterogeneity Detected at the MISR/TERRA Subpixel Scale. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4639-4642.

Govaerts, Y. and M. M. Verstraete, 1998: Raytran: A Monte Carlo Ray-Tracing Model to Compute Light Scattering in Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Media. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 36, 493-505.

Snow and sea ice

Maffione, R. A., J. M. Voss, and C. D. Mobley, 1998: Theory and measurements of the complete beam spread function of sea ice. Limnol. Oceanogr., 43, 34-43.

Mobley, C. D., G. F. Cota, T. C. Grenfell, R. A. Maffione, W. S. Pegau, and D. K. Perovich, 1998: Modeling light propagation in sea ice. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 36, 1743-1749.

Haines, E. M., and R. G. Buckley, 1997: Determination of the depth dependent scattering coefficient in sea ice. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 1141-1151.

Perovich, D. K., 1990: Theoretical estimates of light reflection and transmission by spatially complex and temporally varying sea ice covers. J. Geophys. Res., 95, 9557-9567.

Buckley, R. G., and H. J. Trodahl, 1987: Scattering and absorption of visible light by sea ice. Nature, 326, 867-869.

Trodahl, H. J., R. G. Buckley, and S. Brown, 1987: Diffusive transport of light in sea ice. Applied Optics, 26, 3005-3011.