Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 18
Articles | Volume 17, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5637-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5637-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 18
Research article
 | 
26 Sep 2024
Research article |  | 26 Sep 2024

Merging TEMPEST microwave and GOES-16 geostationary IR soundings for improved water vapor profiles

Chia-Pang Kuo and Christian Kummerow

Model code and software

Atmospheric radiative transfer modeling: A summary of the AER codes (https://github.com/AER-RC/monoRTM) S. A. Clough et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2004.05.058

The Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM): Community-focused collaborative model development accelerating research to operations (https://github.com/JCSDA/crtm) B. T. Johnson et al. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0015.1

Community Radiative Transfer Model for radiance assimilation and applications (https://github.com/JCSDA/crtm) Q. Liu et al. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350612

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Short summary
A small satellite about the size of a shoe box, named TEMPEST, carries only a microwave sensor and is designed to measure the water cycle of the Earth from space in an economical way compared with traditional satellites, which have additional infrared sensors. To overcome the limitation, extra infrared signals from GOES-R ABI are combined with TEMPEST microwave measurements. Compared with ground observations, improved humidity information is extracted from the merged TEMPEST and ABI signals.
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