Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Validation of Results of Atmospheric Temperature and Humidity Sounding with a Fourier Infrared Spectrometer onboard the Meteor-M No. 2 Satellite. |
| Authors: |
Filei, A. A.1 (AUTHOR) vmer@dvrcpod.ru, Davidenko, A. N.1 (AUTHOR), Kiseleva, Yu. V.2 (AUTHOR), Kozlov, D. A.3 (AUTHOR), Kholodov, E. I.1 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Russian Meteorology & Hydrology. Mar2019, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p216-221. 6p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Numerical weather forecasting, *Atmospheric temperature, *IR spectrometers, *Humidity, *Water vapor, Communist countries |
| Abstract: |
The accuracy of retrieving the profiles of temperature and relative humidity from data of IKFS-2 Russian satellite Fourier spectrometer installed onboard the Meteor-M No. 2 satellite is assessed. The retrieved data were compared with radiosonde data and with the results of numerical weather prediction. It was found that the root-mean-square error of the vertical distribution of temperature in the air column of 1000-100 hPa as compared with radiosonde data does not exceed 2.5 K near the Earth surface and is within 2 K at the other levels. The maximum error of relative humidity retrieval was registered in the tropopause area and made up 35%. The use of water vapor mixing ratio for calculating relative humidity reduced the maximum error to ∼25% in the tropopause area and to 15% at the other levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Database: |
Energy & Power Source |
