Microwave radiometer calibration on decadal time scales using on-earth brightness temperature references: Application to the TOPEX microwave radiometer

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2579-2591

  Brown, Shannon ^a   Desai, Shailen ^a   Keihm, Stephen ^a   Lu, Wenwen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON RAIN FOREST; ANTENNA PATTERN CORRECTIONS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLIMATE STUDIES; CLIMATE TRENDS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DYNAMIC RANGE; ERROR BARS; INTERSENSOR; LOWER BOUNDS; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; OCEAN SURFACES; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS; RADIOMETER CALIBRATION; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; TIME-DEPENDENT MODELS; TOPEX MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); EARTH (PLANET); ERRORS; LUMINANCE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SSM-I; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 72049104682     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1305.1     Document Type: Article

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