Abstract. In order to validate satellite measurements of atmospheric composition, it is necessary understand the range random and systematic uncertainties inherent in measurements. On occasions where from two different instruments do not agree within those estimated uncertainties, a common explanation that difference can be assigned geophysical variability, i.e., differences due sampling atmosp...

Recent developments in geophysical data analysis suggest that in addition to a multi-method approach, “data fusion” techniques can offer meaningful insights into archaeological features, as well as allow for researchers to establish patterns between multivariate data sets that might otherwise go unnoticed. Extensive and intensive geophysical prospection has been employed at the site of Portus i...

Using the proposed Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission as a case study, this paper investigates how the presence and nature of vegetation influence the values of geophysical variables retrieved from multi-angle microwave radiometer observations. Synthetic microwave brightness temperatures were generated using a model for the coherent propagation of electromagnetic radiation through ...