Articles | Volume 13, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4437-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4437-2020
Research article
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17 Aug 2020
Research article |  | 17 Aug 2020

CLIMCAPS observing capability for temperature, moisture, and trace gases from AIRS/AMSU and CrIS/ATMS

Nadia Smith and Christopher D. Barnet

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Sounder SIPS: JPSS-1 CrIS Level 2 CLIMCAPS: Atmosphere cloud and surface geophysical state V2 Christopher D. Barnet https://doi.org/10.5067/LESQUBLWS18H

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We diagnose CLIMCAPS observing capability from two different instrument suites and satellite platforms using averaging kernels that quantify information content at every retrieval scene. CLIMCAPS retrieves atmospheric state variables from infrared and microwave measurements and is designed to maintain consistency across time to support climate science and applications. We use averaging kernels to characterize the degree to which we achieved consistency in CLIMCAPS V2 observing capability.