Community Radiative Transfer Model for Stratospheric Sounding Unit

Validating the microwave sounding unit stratospheric record using GPS occultation

[1] We validate the temperature climatology recorded by the Microwave Sounding Unit with GPS occultation data collected by the GPS/MET experiment. We choose to validate only the lower stratospheric MSU climatology in order to circumvent the wet-dry ambiguity associated with GPS occultation in the midto lower troposphere. We simulate the lower stratospheric channel’s brightness temperature by co...

Validation of the community radiative transfer model

To validate the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) developed by the U.S. Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA), the discrete ordinate radiative transfer (DISORT) model and the line-by-line radiative transfer model (LBLRTM) are combined in order to provide a reference benchmark. Compared with the benchmark, the CRTM appears quite accurate for both clear sky and ice cloud ra...

Deep Radar Sounding of Martian Polar Deposits: Radiative Transfer Models

Introduction: Investigation of the internal structure of martian polar caps, being a challenging task during past decades [1], is now going to be solved with the ground penetrating radar (GPR) instruments, both orbital and landed. In the present report the propagation of ultra wide band (UWB) chirp pulse in martian polar ice caps is investigated. The specific nature of the problem is that rathe...

Cross-validation of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit and lidar for long-term upper-stratospheric temperature monitoring

Investigations of stratospheric temperature regional variability with lidar and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit