Evaluation of tropospheric water vapour and temperature profiles retrieved from MetOp-A by the Infrared and Microwave Sounding scheme

Trent, Tim; Siddans, Richard; Kerridge, Brian; Schröder, Marc; Scott, Noëlle A.; Remedios, John

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1503-2023

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23 Mar 2023

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| 23 Mar 2023

Evaluation of tropospheric water vapour and temperature profiles retrieved from MetOp-A by the Infrared and Microwave Sounding scheme

Tim Trent, Richard Siddans, Brian Kerridge, Marc Schröder, Noëlle A. Scott, and John Remedios

Data sets

RAL Infrared Microwave Sounder (IMS) temperature, water vapour, ozone and surface spectral emissivity R. Siddans, J. Walker, B. Latter, B. Kerridge, D. Gerber, and D. Knappett https://doi.org/10.5285/10.5285/489e9b2a0abd43a491d5afdd0d97c1a4

In situ temperature, relative humidity and wind profiles from 2006 to March 2020 from the GRUAN reference network Copernicus Climate Change Service https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.1833f584

Analyzed RadioSoundings Archive (ARSA) N. Scott https://ara.lmd.polytechnique.fr/index.php?page=arsa

Short summary

Modern weather satellites provide essential information on our lower atmosphere's moisture content and temperature structure. This measurement record will span over 40 years, making it a valuable resource for climate studies. This study characterizes atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles from a European Space Agency climate project. Using weather balloon measurements, we demonstrated the performance of this dataset was within the tolerances required for future climate studies.