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RISA Simplified Wind Vector Algorithm for Satellite Scatterometers
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: We derive a simplified algorithm for retrieving wind vectors from microwave scatterometer observations. The azimuthal dependence of the sea surface radar cross section is modeled by a double-cosine function, rather than ...
A 17-Yr Climate Record of Environmental Parameters Derived from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite began operating in December 1997 and was shut down on 8 April 2015. Over the oceans, the microwave (MW) sensor aboard TRMM measures sea surface temperature, wind ...
A Scatterometer Geophysical Model Function for Climate-Quality Winds: QuikSCAT Ku-2011
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: pace-based observations of ocean surface winds have been available for more than 25 years. To combine the observations from multiple sensors into one record with the accuracy required for climate studies requires a consistent ...
On-Orbit Absolute Calibration of the Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory was launched on 27 February 2014. One of the principal instruments on the spacecraft is the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI). This paper describes the absolute calibration ...
A Satellite-Derived Lower-Tropospheric Atmospheric Temperature Dataset Using an Optimized Adjustment for Diurnal Effects
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractTemperature sounding microwave radiometers flown on polar-orbiting weather satellites provide a long-term, global-scale record of upper-atmosphere temperatures, beginning in late 1978 and continuing to the present. ...
Construction of the Remote Sensing Systems V3.2 Atmospheric Temperature Records from the MSU and AMSU Microwave Sounders
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Measurements made by microwave sounding instruments provide a multidecadal record of atmospheric temperature change. Measurements began in late 1978 with the launch of the first Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and continue ...
Capability of the SMAP Mission to Measure Ocean Surface Winds in Storms
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission SMAP was launched in January 2015 and has been providing science data since April 2015. Though designed to measure soil moisture, the SMAP radiometer has an excellent capability ...
Construction of the RSS V3.2 Lower-Tropospheric Temperature Dataset from the MSU and AMSU Microwave Sounders
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Measurements made by microwave sounding instruments provide a multidecadal record of atmospheric temperature in several thick atmospheric layers. Satellite measurements began in late 1978 with the launch of the first ...
SSM/I Rain Retrievals within a Unified All-Weather Ocean Algorithm
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A new method for the physical retrieval of rain rates from satellite microwave radiometers is presented. The method is part of a unified ocean parameter retrieval algorithm that is based on the fundamental principles of ...
Global Microwave Satellite Observations of Sea Surface Temperature for Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Research
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Obtaining global sea surface temperature (SST) fields for the ocean boundary condition in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models and for climate research has long been problematic. Historically, such fields have been ...