Preface |
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1.1 A Microwave Radiometer System |
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3 | (1) |
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1.3 Linearized Planck Function |
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4 | (1) |
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1.4 Stokes Vector and Its Transformation |
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5 | (2) |
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7 | (1) |
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1.6 Spectral Response Function |
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8 | (2) |
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1.7 Microwave Antenna Gain and Distribution Function |
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10 | (1) |
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1.8 Microwave Instrument Scan Geometry |
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11 | (2) |
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1.9 Microwave Data Records and Their Terminology |
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13 | (2) |
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2 Atmospheric Absorption and Scattering |
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15 | (1) |
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2.2 Microwave Gaseous Absorption |
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2.2.1 Absorption Line and Shape |
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16 | (2) |
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18 | (4) |
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2.2.3 Water Vapor Absorption |
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22 | (1) |
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2.2.4 Nitrogen and Ozone Absorption |
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23 | (1) |
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2.2.5 Line-by-Line Radiative Transfer Model (LBLRTM) |
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23 | (1) |
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2.2.6 Zeeman Splitting Absorption |
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24 | (4) |
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2.2.7 Parameterized Transmittance Model |
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28 | (4) |
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2.3 Cloud Absorption and Scattering |
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32 | (12) |
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2.3.1 Scattering Parameters |
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32 | (2) |
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2.3.2 Particle Size Distribution |
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34 | (4) |
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2.3.3 Rayleigh Approximation |
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38 | (4) |
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2.3.4 Henyey--Greenstein and Rayleigh Phase Matrix |
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42 | (2) |
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2.4 Summary and Conclusions |
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44 | (1) |
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3 Radiative Transfer Modeling at Microwave Frequencies |
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45 | (1) |
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3.2 Radiative Transfer Equation |
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45 | (2) |
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3.3 Vector Discrete-Ordinate Method |
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3.4 Radiance Gradient or Jacobians |
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53 | (2) |
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55 | (5) |
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3.6 The Zeroth-Order Approximation to Radiative Transfer Solution |
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60 | (2) |
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3.7 The First-Order Approximation to Radiative Transfer Solution |
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62 | (1) |
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3.8 Ocean Emissivity Model |
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62 | (16) |
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3.8.1 Ocean Roughness Phenomena |
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62 | (2) |
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3.8.2 Approximation of Water Dielectric Constant |
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64 | (3) |
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3.8.3 Ocean Roughness Heights and Spectrum |
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67 | (6) |
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73 | (1) |
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3.8.5 Surface Emissivity Vector |
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3.9 Land Emissivity Model |
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3.9.1 Theoretical Approach for Land Emission |
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3.9.2 Optical Parameters of Vegetation Canopy |
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3.9.3 Optical Parameters of Snow |
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3.9.4 Surface Reflection at Layer Interfaces |
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85 | (2) |
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3.9.5 Soil Dielectric Constant |
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87 | (1) |
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3.9.6 Simulated Surface Emissivity Spectra |
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87 | (1) |
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3.10 Summary and Conclusions |
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88 | (3) |
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4 Microwave Radiance Simulations |
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91 | (1) |
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4.2 Fast Radiative Transfer Simulations |
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92 | (4) |
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4.3 Calculations of Antenna Brightness Temperatures |
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96 | (3) |
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4.4 Simulations of ATMS Sounding Channels Using Global Forecast Model Outputs |
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99 | (6) |
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4.5 Simulations of ATMS Sounding Channels Using GPSRO Data |
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105 | (1) |
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4.5.1 Collocation of GPS RO and ATMS Data |
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105 | (2) |
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4.5.2 ATMS Bias with Respect to GPS RO Data |
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107 | (2) |
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4.6 Uses of TRMM-Derived Hydrometeor Data in Radiative Transfer Simulations |
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4.6.1 Collocation of ATMS and TRMM Data |
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109 | (3) |
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4.6.2 ATMS Biases With Respect to TRMM-Derived Simulations |
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112 | (5) |
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4.7 Advanced Radiative Transfer Simulations |
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117 | (3) |
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4.8 Summary and Conclusions |
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120 | (3) |
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5 Calibration of Microwave Sounding Instruments |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (1) |
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5.3 ATMS Instrument Description |
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124 | (4) |
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5.4 ATMS Radiometric Calibration |
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128 | (5) |
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5.5 Impacts of ATMS Antenna Emission on Two-Point Calibration |
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133 | (2) |
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5.6 Retrieval of Reflector Emissivity Using ATMS Pitch-Over Data |
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135 | (3) |
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5.7 ATMS Noise-Equivalent Difference Temperature (NEDT) |
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138 | (5) |
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5.8 Conversion from Antenna to Sensor Brightness Temperature |
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143 | (4) |
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5.9 Summary and Conclusion |
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147 | (4) |
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6 Detection of Interference Signals at Microwave Frequencies |
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151 | (1) |
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6.2 Microwave Imaging Radiometers and Data Sets |
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152 | (2) |
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6.3 Radio-Frequency Interference Signals in Microwave Data |
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154 | (1) |
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6.4 Detection of RFI over Land |
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155 | (1) |
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6.4.1 Double Principal Component Analysis (DPCA) |
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155 | (5) |
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6.4.2 Spectral Difference Method |
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160 | (2) |
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6.5 RFI Detection over Oceans |
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162 | (3) |
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6.6 Summary and Conclusions |
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175 | (2) |
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7 Microwave Remote Sensing of Surface Parameters |
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177 | (1) |
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7.2 Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface Parameters |
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7.2.1 Retrievals of Surface Wind Vector |
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178 | (5) |
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7.2.2 Simultaneous Retrieval of Sea Surface Temperature and Wind Speed |
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183 | (7) |
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7.3 Remote Sensing of Land Surface Parameters |
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7.3.1 Retrievals of Land Surface Temperature |
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190 | (5) |
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7.3.2 Retrieval of Land Surface Emissivity |
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195 | (3) |
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7.3.3 Error Sensitivity of Land Surface Emissivity |
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7.3.4 Fast Land Emissivity Algorithms |
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202 | (3) |
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7.4 Summary and Conclusions |
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205 | (2) |
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8 Remote Sensing of Clouds from Microwave Sounding Instruments |
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207 | (28) |
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207 | (1) |
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8.2 Remote Sensing of Cloud Liquid Water |
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208 | (5) |
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8.2.1 Principle of Microwave Remote Sensing of Clouds |
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208 | (2) |
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8.2.2 Cloud Liquid Water Algorithm |
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210 | (3) |
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8.3 Remote Sensing of Cloud Ice Water |
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213 | (11) |
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8.3.1 Microwave Scattering from Ice-Phase Cloud |
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213 | (3) |
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8.3.2 Cloud Ice Water Retrieval Algorithm |
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8.4 Cloud Vertical Structures from Microwave Double Oxygen Bands |
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224 | (8) |
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8.4.1 FY-3C Microwave Sounding Instruments and Their Channel Pairing |
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225 | (2) |
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8.4.2 Typhoon Neoguri Observed by MWHS and MWTS |
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227 | (3) |
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8.4.3 The Cloud Emission and Scattering Index (CESI) |
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230 | (2) |
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8.5 Summary and Conclusions |
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232 | (3) |
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9 Microwave Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Profiles |
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235 | (24) |
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9.2 Microwave Sounding Principle |
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236 | (3) |
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9.3 Regression Algorithms |
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239 | (5) |
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9.4 One-Dimensional Variational (1DVAR) Theory |
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244 | (3) |
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9.5 Multiple 1DVARs for All-Weather Profiles |
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247 | (4) |
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9.6 Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) |
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251 | (6) |
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9.7 Summary and Conclusions |
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257 | (2) |
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10 Assimilation of Microwave Data in Regional NWP Models |
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259 | (1) |
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10.2 NCEP GSI Analysis System |
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260 | (2) |
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10.3 ATMS Data Assimilation in HWRF |
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10.3.1 Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) System |
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262 | (2) |
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10.3.2 Hurricane Events in 2012 |
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264 | (2) |
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10.3.3 ATMS Data Quality Control |
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10.3.4 Comparison between (O -- B) and (O -- A) Statistics |
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272 | (1) |
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10.3.5 Impact of ATMS Data on Forecasting Track and Intensity |
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10.4 SSMIS Data Assimilation |
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282 | (5) |
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10.4.2 SSMIS Data Quality Control |
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287 | (1) |
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10.4.3 SSMIS Bias Correction |
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288 | (5) |
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10.4.4 Impacts from SSMIS and AMSU-A Data Assimilation |
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293 | (3) |
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10.4.5 Impact of SSMIS LAS Data on GFS Operational Forecasts |
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10.5 Summary and Conclusions |
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11 Applications of Microwave Data in Climate Studies |
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11.2 Climate Trend Theory |
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300 | (3) |
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11.3 A Long-Term Climate Data Record from SSM/I |
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303 | (17) |
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11.3.1 Simultaneous Conical Overpassing (SCO) Method |
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304 | (3) |
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11.3.2 Bias Characterization of Specific SSM/I Instrument |
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307 | (1) |
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11.3.3 RADCAL Beacon Interference with F15 SSM/I |
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308 | (2) |
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11.3.4 SSM/I Intersensor Bias Correction |
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310 | (3) |
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11.3.5 Impact of Cross-Calibration on SSM/I SDR |
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313 | (2) |
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11.3.6 Impacts of SSM/I Intersensor Calibration on TPW |
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315 | (5) |
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11.4 A Long-Term Climate Data Record from MSU/AMSU |
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11.4.1 Impacts of Clouds and Precipitation on AMSU-A Trends |
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323 | (1) |
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11.4.2 Emission and Scattering Effect on AMSU-A |
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323 | (3) |
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11.4.3 AMSU-A Brightness Temperature Trend |
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326 | (4) |
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11.5 Atmospheric Temperature Trend from 1DVar Retrieval |
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11.5.1 Climate Applications of 1DVar |
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330 | (1) |
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11.5.2 MSU and AMSU-A Cross-Calibration |
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331 | (1) |
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11.5.3 Cloud Detection Algorithm for MSU Applications |
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331 | (3) |
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11.5.4 Temperature Trend from 1DVar |
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11.6 Summary and Conclusions |
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References |
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