Stratospheric Temperature Climate Data Record from Merged SSU and AMSU-A Observations

Zou, Cheng-Zhi; Qian, Haifeng

doi:10.1175/jtech-d-16-0018.1

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Stratospheric Temperature Climate Data Record from Merged SSU and AMSU-A Observations

2016
By Zou, Cheng-Zhi ; Qian, Haifeng
Source: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33(9), 1967-1984

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Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
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NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) ; STAR (Center for Satellite Applications and Research)

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Observations from the Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU) on board historical NOAA polar-orbiting satellites have played a vital role in investigations of long-term trends and variability in the middle- and upper-stratospheric temperatures during 1979–2006. The successor to SSU is the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) starting from 1998 until the present. Unfortunately, the two observations came from different sets of atmospheric layers, and the SSU weighting functions varied with time and location, posing a challenge to merge them with sufficient accuracy for development of an extended SSU climate data record. This study proposes a variational approach for the merging problem, matching in both temperatures and weighting functions.
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Algorithms Climate Change Climate Records Microwave Observations Observational Techniques And Algorithms Physical Meteorology And Climatology Satellite Observations Temperature
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Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33(9), 1967-1984
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