Climate-quality calibration for low earth-orbit microwave radiometry
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Rosenkranz, Philip; Blackwell, William J; Leslie, Robert Vincent
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Improvements in radiometric calibration are needed to achieve the desired accuracy and stability of satellite-based microwave-radiometer observations intended for the production of climate data records. Linearity, stability and traceability of measurements to an SI-unit standard should be emphasized. We suggest radiometer design approaches to achieve these objectives in a microwave calibration-reference instrument. Multi-year stability would be verified by comparison to radio-occultation measurements. Data from such an instrument could be used for climate studies and also to transfer its calibration to weather-satellite instruments. With the suitable selection of an orbit, a climatology of the diurnal variation in the measured parameters could be compiled, which would reduce uncertainties in climate trends inferred from earlier microwave radiometers over past decades. Keywords: microwave radiometer calibration; GSICS; intercalibration
Date issued
2020-01-10Department
Lincoln LaboratoryJournal
Remote Sensing
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Rosenkranz, Philip W., William J. Blackwell, and R. Vincent Leslie, "Climate-quality calibration for low earth-orbit microwave radiometry." Remote Sensing 12, 2 (Jan. 2020): no. 241 doi 10.3390/rs12020241 ©2020 Author(s)
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2072-4292