Determinations of cloud liquid water in the tropics from the SSM/IUpward-looking microwave radiometric observations were used to validate the SSM/I determinations, and also as a basis for the determination of new coefficients. Due to insufficiency of the initial four channel algorithm for cloud liquid water, the improved algorithm was derived from the CORRAD (the University of Massachusetts autocorrelation radiometer) measurements of cloud liquid water and the matching SSM/I brightness temperatures using the standard linear regression. The correlation coefficients for the possible four channel combinations, and subsequently the best and the worst combinations were determined.
Document ID
19900043121
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Alishouse, John C. (NOAA, Satellite Research Laboratory, Washington DC, United States)
Swift, Calvin (Massachusetts, University Amherst, United States)
Ruf, Christopher (JPL, Pasadena, CA; Massachusetts, University Amherst, United States)
Snyder, Sheila (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Washington, DC, United States)
Vongsathorn, Jennifer (SM Systems and Research Corp. Landover, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1989
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Meeting Information
Meeting: Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography