On the importance of Vaisala RS92 radiosonde humidity corrections for a better agreement between measured and modeled satellite radiances

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 248-259

  Kottayil, Ajil ^a   Buehler, Stefan A ^a   John, Viju O ^b   Miloshevich, Larry M ^c   Milz, M ^a   Holl, G ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c Milo Scientific LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave observations; Radiosonde observations; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER; BIAS REDUCTION; DATA SETS; HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED RADIATION SOUNDERS; HUMIDITY CORRECTION; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MIDLATITUDES; RADIOSONDE MEASUREMENTS; RADIOSONDE SENSORS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; INFRARED RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SUN;

RADIOSONDES;

NOAA SATELLITE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84857153432     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00080.1     Document Type: Article

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