Speaker
Ralf Bennartz
(Vanderbilt University)
Description
The Microwave Radiometer (MWR) flown on Envisat, ERS-1 and ERS-2, and Sentinel-3 provides a nearly uninterrupted time series of microwave observations between 1991 and 2024. This dataset complements other microwave datasets, e.g. the SSM/I. Despite its nadir-only coverage it provides an opportunity to independently provide estimates on total column water vapor (TCWV) and cloud liquid water path (LWP). We report on our efforts towards a fully inter-calibrated and validated physical retrieval of TCWV and LWP for MWR. We address issues related to satellite inter-calibration, homogeneity of the time series of brightness temperatures, observation-simulation biases, and provide results of physical optimal estimation-based time series of TCWV.
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Primary author
Ralf Bennartz
(Vanderbilt University)
Co-authors
Mr
Bruno Picard
(Fluctus SAS)
Mr
Frank Fell
(Informus GmbH)
