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Paper Abstract
This article presents some ideas and issues related to the creation of a long-term upper tropospheric humidity
(UTH) data set using satellite based microwave measurements. Polar orbiting satellites have been measuring
UTH for more than a decade now. There are three microwave instruments which can measure UTH from Space:
Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature-2 (SSM/T2), Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (AMSU-B), and
Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS). These instruments have channels at 183.31±1.00GHz which are sensitive
to UTH. Retrieval of UTH and cloud issues are discussed in detail. Advantage of microwave measurements
of UTH over infrared measurements are demonstrated. Preliminary results on the inter-calibration of these
instruments are also shown.
Paper Details
Date Published: 8 December 2006
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 6410, Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment V, 64100K (8 December 2006); doi: 10.1117/12.694305
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6410:
Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment V
Azita Valinia; Seiho Uratsuka; Tapan Misra, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 6410, Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment V, 64100K (8 December 2006); doi: 10.1117/12.694305
Show Author Affiliations
V. O. John, Univ. of Miami (United States)
S. A. Buehler, Lulea Technical Univ. (Sweden)
M. Kuvatov, Univ. of Bremen (Germany)
S. A. Buehler, Lulea Technical Univ. (Sweden)
M. Kuvatov, Univ. of Bremen (Germany)
B. J. Soden, Univ. of Miami (United States)
T. R. Sreerekha, Met Office (United Kingdom)
T. R. Sreerekha, Met Office (United Kingdom)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6410:
Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment V
Azita Valinia; Seiho Uratsuka; Tapan Misra, Editor(s)
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