Articles | Volume 10, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3947-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3947-2017
Research article
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25 Oct 2017
Research article |  | 25 Oct 2017

Long-term observations minus background monitoring of ground-based brightness temperatures from a microwave radiometer network

Francesco De Angelis, Domenico Cimini, Ulrich Löhnert, Olivier Caumont, Alexander Haefele, Bernhard Pospichal, Pauline Martinet, Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Henk Klein-Baltink, Jean-Charles Dupont, and James Hocking

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Modern data assimilation systems require knowledge of the typical differences between observations and model background (O–B). This work illustrates a 1-year O–B analysis for ground-based microwave radiometer (MWR) observations in clear-sky conditions for a prototype network of six MWRs in Europe. Observations are MWR brightness temperatures (TB). Background profiles extracted from the output of a convective-scale model are used to simulate TB through the radiative transfer model RTTOV-gb.
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