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At present, due to limitations of frequency and substrates, few operational microwave radiative transfer models can be used to simulate L-band brightness temperature (TB) in Arctic sea ice. The snow microwave radiative transfer (SMRT) model, developed with the support of the European Space Agency in 2018, has been used to simulate high-frequency TB in polar regions and has obtained good results, but no studies have shown whether it can be used appropriately in the L-band. Therefore, in this study, we systematically evaluate the ability of the SMRT model to simulate L-band TB in the Arctic sea ice and snow environment, and we show that the results are significantly optimized by improving the simulation method. In this paper, we first consider the thermal insulation effect of snow by adding the thermodynamic equation, then use a reasonable salinity profile formula for multi-layer model simulation to solve the problem of excessive L-band penetration in the SMRT single-layer model, and finally add ice lead correction to resolve the large influence it has on the results. The improved SMRT model is evaluated using Operation IceBridge (OIB) data from 2012 to 2015 and compared with the snow-corrected classical L-band radiative transfer model for Arctic sea ice proposed in 2010 (KA2010). The results show that the SMRT model has better simulation results, and the correlation coefficient (R) between SMRT-simulated TB and Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite TB is 0.65, and the RMSE is 3.11 K. Finally, the SMRT model with the improved simulation method is applied to the whole Arctic from November 2014 to April 2015, and the simulated R is 0.63, and the RMSE is 5.22 K. The results show that the SMRT multi-layer model is feasible for simulating L-band TB in the Arctic sea ice and snow environment, which provides a basis for the retrieval of Arctic parameters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15153889","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,5]],"date-time":"2023-08-05T10:25:36Z","timestamp":1691231136000},"page":"3889","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Evaluation and Application of SMRT Model for L-Band Brightness Temperature Simulation in Arctic Sea Ice"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Yanfei","family":"Fan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, College of Marine Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"}]},{"given":"Lele","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, College of Marine Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"University Corporation for Polar Research (UCPR), Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Haihua","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, College of Marine Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"University Corporation for Polar Research (UCPR), Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9902-8035","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lei","family":"Guan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, College of Marine Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"University Corporation for Polar Research (UCPR), Beijing 100875, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Rees, W.G. 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