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The atlas follows the methodology of the RTTOV University of Wisconsin infrared land surface emissivity (UWIREMIS) atlas, i.e., it combines satellite retrievals and a principal component analysis on a dataset of hyper-spectral surface hemispherical reflectance or albedo. The current version of the BRDF atlas is based on the Collection 5 of the Moderate Resolution Imaging (MODIS) MCD43C1 Climate Modeling Grid BRDF kernel-driven model parameters product. The MCD43C1 product combines both Terra and Aqua satellites over a 16-day period of acquisition and is provided globally at 0.05\u00b0 of spatial resolution. We have improved the RTTOV land surface BRDF atlas by using the last Collection 6 of MODIS product MCD43C1. We firstly found that the MODIS C6 product improved the quality index of the BRDF model as compared with that of C5. When compared with clear-sky top of atmosphere (TOA) reflectance of Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imagers (SEVIRI) solar channels over snow-free land surfaces, we showed that the reflectances are simulated with an absolute accuracy of 3% to 5% (i.e., 0.03\u20130.05 in reflectance units) when either the satellite zenith angle or the solar zenith angle is below 70\u00b0, regardless of the MODIS collection. For snow-covered surfaces, we showed that the comparison with in situ snow spectral albedo is improved with C6 with an underestimation of 0.05 in the near infrared.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10010021","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,26]],"date-time":"2017-12-26T03:06:38Z","timestamp":1514257598000},"page":"21","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["The VIS\/NIR Land and Snow BRDF Atlas for RTTOV: Comparison between MODIS MCD43C1 C5 and C6"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"J\u00e9r\u00f4me","family":"Vidot","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France, CMS, Lannion F-22300, France"}]},{"given":"Pascal","family":"Brunel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France, CMS, Lannion F-22300, France"}]},{"given":"Marie","family":"Dumont","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France\u2014CNRS, CNRM, UMR 3589, CEN, Saint Martin d\u2019H\u00e8res F-38400, France"}]},{"given":"Carlo","family":"Carmagnola","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France\u2014CNRS, CNRM, UMR 3589, CEN, Saint Martin d\u2019H\u00e8res F-38400, France"}]},{"given":"James","family":"Hocking","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"MetOffice, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1407","DOI":"10.1002\/qj.1999.49712555615","article-title":"An improved fast radiative transfer model for assimilation of satellite radiance observations","volume":"125","author":"Saunders","year":"1999","journal-title":"Q. 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