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- Title
Temperature and Moisture Sounding Performance of Current and Prospective Microwave Instruments under All-Sky Conditions.
- Authors
Maddy, Eric S.; Bunin, Stacy; Mikles, Valerie J.; Shahroudi, Narges; Shiotani, Bungo; Boukabara, Sid-Ahmed
- Abstract
We provide consistent theoretical and empirical assessments of the major driving factors of the information content and retrieval performance for current and potential future microwave (MW) sounders. For the specific instrument concepts assessed, we find that instrument noise is a major driver, impacting vertical resolution as measured by the degrees of freedom for signal as much as 50%. We also observe diminished performance in the 118 GHz temperature sounding band as compared to the 50–60 GHz band, which is largely due to the increased sensor noise in the assessed 118 GHz sensor for comparable channels—a reduction in the performance gap between 118 GHz and 50 GHz bands can be obtained with a reduction of instrument noise in the 118 GHz temperature sounding channels. As expected, scene-type also significantly impacts the vertical resolution, emphasizing the importance of separating clear, cloudy, rainy, and icy conditions when evaluating instrument performance.
- Subjects
MICROWAVES; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY active radiation (PAR); DEGREES of freedom; MOISTURE; NOISE control; TEMPERATURE; DEPTH sounding
- Publication
Remote Sensing, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 7, p1624
- ISSN
2072-4292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rs14071624