MWRRETV2 Value-Added Product Report: The Retrieval of Liquid Water Path and Precipitable Water Vapor from Microwave Radiometer – 3-Channel (MWR3C) Data Sets
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States). Earth System Research Lab.
This report provides a short description of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility Microwave Radiometer – 3-Channel (MWR3C) Retrieval (MWRRETV2) Value-Added Product (VAP) algorithm. MWRRETV2 is an updated version of MWRRET, which extends the physical-iterative retrieval of liquid water path (LWP) and precipitable water vapor PWV) to 3-channel microwave radiometers beyond ARM's original standard 2-channel (23-and 31-GHz) systems. The 89-GHz channel in the 3-channel microwave radiometers has approximately three times the sensitivity to liquid water as the 31-GHz channel, thus improving LWP retrieval accuracy when LWP is less than 100 g/m2. We present a general overview of the technique, input parameters, and output products, and describe data quality checks.
- Research Organization:
- DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Earth and Environmental Systems Science Division
- Contributing Organization:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-7601830
- OSTI ID:
- 1808584
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SC-ARM-TR-245
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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