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

Smith, Nadia; Barnet, Christopher D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4437-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4437-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4437-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 8

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

Data sets

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

Short summary

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.