Pilot Study of Methods to Decrease Measurement Errors of Tropospheric Inversions by Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry

Abstract

Results of radiometer temperature profile simulations are analyzed in order to examine the hypothesis that knowledge of temperature inversion parameters obtained from other instruments would substantially improve the accuracy of radiometric temperature profiles. Five variations of a statistical retrieval method are used to produce radiometric temperature profiles. These profiles are then compared with radiosonde data under both inversion and noninversion conditions. The best algorithm yields consistently better results than the traditional (pure radiometric) technique, but still fails to correctly reproduce the radiosonde inversions.