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The L-band microwave emission of the biosphere (L-MEB) model that is also used in the SMOS L2 soil moisture algorithm is used to simulate the microwave emission of a winter oilseed rape field in Puch that was also observed by the radiometer. As there is a lack of a rape parameterization for L-MEB the SMOS default parameters for crops are used in a first step which does not lead to satisfying modeling results. Therefore, a new parameterization for L-MEB is developed that allows us to model the microwave emission of a winter oilseed rape field at the test site with better results. The soil moisture retrieval performance of the new parameterization is assessed in different retrieval configurations and the results are discussed. To allow satisfying results, the periods before and after winter have to be modeled with different parameter sets as the vegetation behavior is very different during these two development stages. With the new parameterization it is possible to retrieve soil moisture from multiangular brightness temperature data with a root mean squared error around 0.045\u20130.051 m\u00b3\/m\u00b3 in a two parameter retrieval with soil moisture and roughness parameter Hr as free parameters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs4010247","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,1,16]],"date-time":"2012-01-16T11:14:14Z","timestamp":1326712454000},"page":"247-270","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Characterization of Rape Field Microwave Emission and Implications to Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"Florian","family":"Schlenz","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Munich, Luisenstr. 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Joachim","family":"Fallmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, D-82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6294-120X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Philip","family":"Marzahn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Munich, Luisenstr. 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alexander","family":"Loew","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, KlimaCampus, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wolfram","family":"Mauser","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Munich, Luisenstr. 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,1,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"951","DOI":"10.1038\/nature09396","article-title":"Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply","volume":"467","author":"Jung","year":"2010","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1729","DOI":"10.1109\/36.942551","article-title":"Soil moisture retrieval from space: The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission","volume":"39","author":"Kerr","year":"2001","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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