A review of sources of systematic errors and uncertainties in observations and simulations at 183 GHz

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• Journal Title:
  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
• Personal Author:
  Brogniez, Hélène ; English, Stephen ; Mahfouf, Jean-François ; Behrendt, Andreas ; Berg, Wesley ; Boukabara, Sid ; Buehler, Stefan Alexander ; Chambon, Philippe ; Gambacorta, Antonia ; Geer, Alan ; Ingram, William ; Kursinski, E. Robert ; Matricardi, Marco ; Odintsova, Tatyana A. ; Payne, Vivienne H. ; Thorne, Peter W. ; Tretyakov, Mikhail Yu. ; Wang, Junhong
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research)
• Description:
  Several recent studies have observed systematic differences between measurements in the 183.31 GHz water vapor line by space-borne sounders and calculations using radiative transfer models, with inputs from either radiosondes (radiosonde observations, RAOBs) or short-range forecasts by numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. This paper discusses all the relevant categories of observation-based or model-based data, quantifies their uncertainties and separates biases that could be common to all causes from those attributable to a particular cause.
• Source:
  Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9(5), 2207–2221
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-2207-2016
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:96ef2521106ad48e0926844111425f0c5c851add54f1665a2b6bb6f4f7bf478c
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/41065/noaa_41065_DS1.pdf
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