Abstract: To produce atmospheric temperature profiles from measurements of infrared data, it is necessary to obtain infrared radiances for clear areas. Clear radiances are obtained either by identifying spots that are completely ...

Abstract: NOAA and NASA have conducted a joint simulation study to compare the retrieval accuracy of atmospheric temperature profiles and surface skin temperature retrieved from HIRS2, the current operational infrared temperature ...

Abstract: The National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) collocation data archive of satellite and radiosonde measurements is used to investigate errors in in situ radiosonde data and a NESDIS-like radiative ...

Abstract: To utilize satellite radiance sounding data, in either explicit or implicit retrieval algorithms, a proper understanding of the noise in the measurements is required. Conventionally, to define the expected accuracy of ...

Abstract: Root-mean-square differences between satellite and radiosondes for the past three years that TIROS-N has been operational are examined. They show a pronounced annual cycle because the statistics are dominated by the Northern ...

Abstract: Radiometric soundings from the Wave Propagation Laboratory's ground-based Profiler, the NOAA 6/7 satellites, and the combination of the two, were compared in their ability to derive temperature and moisture profiles. ...

Abstract: Temperature profiles from the TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) were combined with low-altitude virtual temperature profiles measured by a ground-based 915-MHz/2-kHz radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) at Denver, ...