Inter-channel uniformity of a microwave sounder in space

Burgdorf, Martin; Hans, Imke; Prange, Marc; Lang, Theresa; Buehler, Stefan A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4005-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4005-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4005-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

Research article

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11 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 11 Jul 2018

Inter-channel uniformity of a microwave sounder in space

Martin Burgdorf, Imke Hans, Marc Prange, Theresa Lang, and Stefan A. Buehler

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'comments for the work', Hu Yang, 22 Jan 2018
- SC1: 'Dr. Yang's comment', Martin Burgdorf, 11 Feb 2018
- AC2: 'smear effect', Martin Burgdorf, 29 Mar 2018
RC2: 'comments on Dr. Burgdorf's reply', Hu Yang, 16 Feb 2018
- AC2: 'smear effect', Martin Burgdorf, 29 Mar 2018
RC3: 'Comments on manuscript', Wesley Berg, 06 Mar 2018
- AC1: 'Dr. Berg's comment', Martin Burgdorf, 28 Mar 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (26 Apr 2018) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (01 May 2018) by S. Joseph Munchak

RR by Hu Yang (07 May 2018)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (04 Jun 2018) by S. Joseph Munchak

AR by Martin Burgdorf on behalf of the Authors (26 Jun 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We analysed observations of the Moon with the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B on the NOAA-16 satellite in order to search for bias in the sounding channels. Significant bias had been detected in the past on the basis of simultaneous nadir overpasses. With the Moon providing a quite different reference flux than the on-board calibration target and Earth scenes, radio-frequency interference emerged as the best explanation for the anomalies of channel 20 of AMSU-B on NOAA-16.