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Because infrared and microwaves with different frequencies have different penetration depths in snow, it is possible to retrieve the snow temperature profiles by combining microwave and infrared brightness temperatures. This paper proposes a conjoint inversion algorithm to retrieve snow temperature profiles by combining multi-frequency microwave brightness temperature (BT) with infrared BT, in which different weight functions of microwave BT at different frequencies are adopted, and the atmosphere influence has also been corrected. The snow temperature profile data are retrieved based on AMSR2 microwave BT data and MODIS infrared BT data in 2017 and 2018, which are evaluated by comparing with the measured snow temperature at Dome-C station. The results confirm that the inverted snow temperature profiles are consistent with the field observation data from the Dome-C station. Multi-frequency microwave brightness temperature can be used to invert the snow temperature profiles; however, the inverted snow surface temperature is more accurate by combining the infrared BT with the microwave BT in the conjoint inversion algorithm.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15051396","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,2]],"date-time":"2023-03-02T01:39:21Z","timestamp":1677721161000},"page":"1396","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Conjoint Inversion of Snow Temperature Profiles from Microwave and Infrared Brightness Temperature in Antarctica"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4069-9680","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhiwei","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Multi-Spectral Information Processing Laboratory, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"given":"Rong","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Multi-Spectral Information Processing Laboratory, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"given":"Liqiang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Multi-Spectral Information Processing Laboratory, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"},{"name":"Institute of Remote Sensing Satellite, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3358-3885","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ke","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Multi-Spectral Information Processing Laboratory, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"given":"Qingxia","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology on Multi-Spectral Information Processing Laboratory, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5","DOI":"10.1029\/2011GL046583","article-title":"Acceleration of the contribution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to sea level rise","volume":"38","author":"Rignot","year":"2011","journal-title":"Geophys. 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