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NOAA PSL Microwave Radiometer Block Island / Thermodynamic retrievals TROPoe
Abstract
This dataset contains daily files with thermodynamic profiles retrieved with the optimal estimation physical retrieval TROPoe (Turner and Löhnert 2014; Turner and Blumberg 2019; Turner and Löhnert 2021). The profiles are retrieved every 10 minutes from instantaneous brightness temperature measurements at 35 channels observed with a microwave radiometer MP3000A operated by NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory on the Block Island for WFIP3. Additional input data in TROPoe are cloud base height from a collocated ceilometer operated by NOAA GML and temperature, water vapor mixing ratio, and pressure from a sensor attached to the MWR housing. In addition to these temporally resolved input data, TROPoe requires an a priori dataset (prior) that provides mean climatological estimates of thermodynamic profiles and specifies how temperature and humidity covary with height as an input (for details see, e.g., Djalalova et al. 2022). The prior is a key component of the retrieval and provides a constraint on the ill-posed inversion problem. A monthly prior was computed from operational radiosonde launches at Upton, NY.
- Authors:
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- NOAA PSL; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Atmosphere to Electrons (A2e) Data Archive and Portal, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; PNNL
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
- Subject:
- 17 WIND ENERGY
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2293550
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.21947/2293550
Citation Formats
Adler, Bianca. NOAA PSL Microwave Radiometer Block Island / Thermodynamic retrievals TROPoe. United States: N. p., 2025.
Web. doi:10.21947/2293550.
Adler, Bianca. NOAA PSL Microwave Radiometer Block Island / Thermodynamic retrievals TROPoe. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.21947/2293550
Adler, Bianca. 2025.
"NOAA PSL Microwave Radiometer Block Island / Thermodynamic retrievals TROPoe". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.21947/2293550. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2293550. Pub date:Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2025
@article{osti_2293550,
title = {NOAA PSL Microwave Radiometer Block Island / Thermodynamic retrievals TROPoe},
author = {Adler, Bianca},
abstractNote = {This dataset contains daily files with thermodynamic profiles retrieved with the optimal estimation physical retrieval TROPoe (Turner and Löhnert 2014; Turner and Blumberg 2019; Turner and Löhnert 2021). The profiles are retrieved every 10 minutes from instantaneous brightness temperature measurements at 35 channels observed with a microwave radiometer MP3000A operated by NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory on the Block Island for WFIP3. Additional input data in TROPoe are cloud base height from a collocated ceilometer operated by NOAA GML and temperature, water vapor mixing ratio, and pressure from a sensor attached to the MWR housing. In addition to these temporally resolved input data, TROPoe requires an a priori dataset (prior) that provides mean climatological estimates of thermodynamic profiles and specifies how temperature and humidity covary with height as an input (for details see, e.g., Djalalova et al. 2022). The prior is a key component of the retrieval and provides a constraint on the ill-posed inversion problem. A monthly prior was computed from operational radiosonde launches at Upton, NY.},
doi = {10.21947/2293550},
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year = {Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2025},
month = {Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2025}
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