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abstract: The dataset contains three channel-based, monthly gridded atmospheric layer temperature Climate Data Records generated by merging nine MSU NOAA polar orbiting satellites, TIROS-N and NOAA-6 through NOAA-14, and six AMSU-A polar orbiting satellites, NOAA-15 through NOAA-18, MetOp-A, and NASA AQUA. These are temperatures of middle-troposphere (TMT), upper-troposphere (TUT, also known as temperature troposphere stratosphere), and lower-stratosphere (TLS), corresponding to measurements from MSU/AMSU-A channels 2/5, 3/7, and 4/9, respectively. Adjustments of observations included limb-adjustment, diurnal drift corrections, warm target temperature effect, and residual inter-satellite bias removal. Data coverage is from November 1978 to present; It is monthly global gridded dataset with 2.5 latitude by 2.5 longitude resolution. The dataset is updated each month with full Period of Record (POR) files in order to monitor operationally the change of upper air temperature.
purpose: This dataset provides advanced scientific researchers a high quality Climate Data Record (CDR) of Upper Atmospheric Layer Temperatures. It is used for monitoring and investigation of long-term temperature trend and variability for the atmospheric layers as defined by TMT, TUT, and TLS.
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statement: The data were produced by the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), and are archived at the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). The MSU on board NOAA polar orbiting satellite series had been the primary instruments for measuring upper-air temperature profiles under all weather conditions, excluding precipitation, during 1978-2007. MSU was a microwave Dicke radiometer with four-channels to make passive measurements in the 5.5 millimeter oxygen region. The radiance measured by each frequency channel comes from a different layer of the atmosphere, depending on the strength of the absorption at that frequency. The percentage contribution of individual levels within the layer to the measured layer temperature is represented by a vertical weighting function, which is typically bell-shaped, peaking at a certain level in the height coordinate. Among these, MSU channel 1 (50.3 GHz) measured surface temperature, and channels 2, 3 and 4 measured temperatures of the middle-troposphere (TMT), upper-troposphere (TUT), and lower-stratosphere (TLS) with their weighting functions peaking respectively near 550, 250, and 100 hPa. Since 1998, AMSU-A onboard NOAA-15 and its follow-on satellites has replaced MSU. As a successor to the MSU instrument, AMSU-A has improved instrument accuracy, and with its 15 channels provides finer vertical resolution and measurements well into the upper stratosphere. Among all discrete frequency channels, channels 5, 7, and 9 share a similar spectrum frequency with MSU channel 2, 3, and 4, respectively. By merging MSU and AMSU-A observations from different satellites, long-term temperature time series are obtained for these layers for climate trend monitoring and investigation. Due to stability, continuity, global coverage, and insensitive to clouds, these time series are broadly used as an indicator of global warming.
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rationale: The main purpose of the merging algorithm or processing steps is to derive homogeneous temperature CDR from the sequential overlapping MSU and AMSU-A observations onboard NOAA, NASA, and MetOp polar orbiting satellites channel by channel. Deriving such time series requires a number of steps: Inter-calibrating the satellite sensors; Removing instrument temperature effects on observations; ;Adjusting the observations to a common reference time (usually chosen as local noon time) to minimize diurnal effect related to satellite orbital drifts; Adjusting observations made at different viewing angles to nadir views (limb effect); Adjusting channel frequency differences between MSU and AMSU-A equivalent channels; Removing residual inter-satellite biases and their drifts. ...The Level-1c radiances data used for deriving the layer temperature TCDR were already inter-calibrated by the Integrated Microwave Inter-Calibration Approach (IMICA, formerly known as simultaneous nadir overpass approach; Zou and Wang 2013). In addition, limb-adjusted brightness temperatures are also provided in the IMICA calibrated Level-1c files. As such, only adjustments other than sensor inter-calibrations and limb-adjustments were needed for satellite merging. The IMICA calibrated MSU/AMSU-A radiances and limb adjustments were described in details in the C-ATBD associated with the MSU/AMSU-A Level-1c radiance dataset (Zou and Wang 2013). This has substantially simplified the processing procedure for developing MSU/AMSU-A layer temperature TCDR. In the MSU/AMSU-A Version 3.0 mean layer temperature TCDR, updated limb-adjustment for AMSU-A observations were developed and used, which was described in the C-ATBD associated with the Version 3.0 dataset.
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maintenanceNote: Bulk metadata change applied on 2023-07-06. See version control repository history for metadata change details.
