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REMOTE SENSING
卷 14, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs14081853
关键词
cloud liquid water; total precipitable water; MWTS; ATMS
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资金
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2021YFB3900400]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U2142212]
This study characterizes the polarization of MWTS-III and compares the derived CLW and TPW with those from ATMS, showing a high consistency in spatial distributions and magnitudes.
Cloud liquid water (CLW) and total precipitable water (TPW) are two important parameters for weather and climate applications. Typically, microwave temperature sounding instruments onboard satellites are designed with two low-frequency channels at 23.8 and 31.4 GHz and can be used for retrieving CLW and TPW over global oceans. Since MWTS-III polarization at above two frequencies is uncertain, we must first determine their polarization involved in retrieval algorithms. Through radiative transfer simulation, we found that uses of the quasi-horizontal polarization for MWTS-III can produce smaller biases between observations and simulations and the scan-angle dependence of the biases is also in a general frown pattern, which is similar to ATMS pitch-maneuver observations. After the characterization of MWTS-III polarization, CLW and TPW are derived from Microwave Temperature Sounder (MWTS-III) and are compared with those from ATMS. It is found that CLW and TPW derived from two instruments exhibit a high consistency in terms of their spatial distributions and magnitudes.
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