Assessments of F18 special sensor microwave imager/sounder measurements for weather and climate applications

Author

Liang, Ding ; Weng, Fuzhong ; Chen, Yong ; Zhu, Tong

Author_Institution

IMSG, Camp Spring, MD, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

875

Lastpage

878

Abstract

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program´s (DMSP) F-18 Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) brightness temperature difference (O-B) between observations and simulations from the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) based on 6 hour forecast fields of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global Forest System (GFS) are analyzed in this paper. It shows that after the current GSI bias correction, the O-B from SSMIS F-18 lower atmospheric sounding (LAS) channels are still significant and depend on nodes, seasons, latitudes and channels.

Keywords

atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric techniques; weather forecasting; Community Radiative Transfer Model; F18 special sensor microwave imager measurement; F18 special sensor microwave sounder measurement; GSI bias correction; Global Forest System; National Centers for Environmental Prediction; SSMIS F-18 lower atmospheric sounding; brightness temperature; climate application; defense meteorological satellite program; weather application; Atmospheric modeling; Brightness temperature; Electromagnetic heating; Microwave imaging; Satellites; Standards; Weather forecasting; Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS); bias correction; numerical weather prediction (NWP);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351421

Filename

6351421