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RISSevere Storm Observations Using the Microwave Sounding Unit
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The microwave sounding unit (MSU) aboard the NOAA polar orbiting satellites contains four channels in the oxygen band, at 50.30, 53.74, 54.96 and 57.95 GHz, which receive thermal radiation originating primarily from four ...
Retrieval of Ice Cloud Parameters Using a Microwave Imaging Radiometer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Based on the radiative transfer theory, the microwave radiance emanating from ice clouds at arbitrary viewing angles is expressed as an analytic function of the cloud ice water path (IWP), the particle effective diameter ...
Adequacy of Using a 1/3-Degree Special Sensor Microwave Imager Dataset to Estimate Climate-Scale Rainfall
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Until recently, monthly rainfall products using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Office of Research and Applications Special Sensor Microwave ...
Synoptic-Scale Studies Using the Nimbus 6 Scanning Microwave Spectrometer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Several frontal systems over Europe in August 1975 and January and February 1976 are examined using scanning microwave spectrometer (SCAMS) data. Comparisons are made with thermal fields constructed from radiosonde ...
A Comparison between Snow Cover Products Derived from Visible and Microwave Satellite Observation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A comparison between two satellite-derived snow cover products demonstrates the strengths and weakness of each procedure. The current NESDIS operational product is subjectively derived from visible satellite imagery. The ...
An Eight-Year (1987–1994) Time Series of Rainfall, Clouds, Water Vapor, Snow Cover, and Sea Ice Derived from SSM/I Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I), first placed into operation in July 1987, has been making measurements of earth-emitted radiation for over eight years. These data are used to estimate both atmospheric and ...
Calibration and Verification of Land Surface Temperature Anomalies Derived from the SSM/I
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The current network of internationally exchanged in situ station data is not distributed evenly nor densely around the globe. Consequently, the in situ data contain insufficient information to identify fine spatial structure ...
Global Atmospheric Temperature Monitoring with Satellite Microwave Measurements: Method and Results 1979–84
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A method for measuring global atmospheric temperature anomalies to a high level of precision from satellites is demonstrated. Global data from the Microwave Sounding Units (MSUs), flying on NOAA satellites since late 1978, ...
Comparison of Tropospheric Temperature Derived from the Microwave Sounding Unit and the National Meteorological Center Analysis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Microwave Sounding Units (MSU) aboard the NOAA series of polar-orbiting satellites (TIROS-N to NOAA-12) have provided stable and precise measurements of vertically integrated atmospheric temperature since December 1978. ...
Remote Sensing of Temperature Profiles from a Combination of Observations from the Satellite-Based Microwave Sounding Unit and the Ground-Based Profiler
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Temperature profiles are derived from ground- and satellite-based microwave radiometric observations. Data taken by the NOAA Profiler during December 1981 to December 1982, at Stapleton International Airport, Denver, ...