Subject: | NIM/MWRP/M1 - Instrument noise problem |
DataStreams: | nimmwrpM1.00, nimmwrpM1.b1, nimmwrprawM1.00
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Description: | There are spikes and elevated noise in MWRP data. The origine of the spikes is RF
interference from various sources. All brightness temperatures are affected, but in particular
the 5 K-band channels. LWP retrievals are noisy and affected by spikes as a result. |
Measurements: | nimmwrpM1.00: - Raw data stream - documentation not supported(raw)
nimmwrpM1.b1: - Total precipitable water vapor, from microwave radiometer(totalPrecipitableWater)
- Retrieved water vapor density(waterVaporDensity)
- Retrieved liquid water path using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz(liquidWaterPath2)
- Microwave brightness temperature(brightnessTemperature)
- Interpolated dewpoint temperature(dewpointTemperature)
- Derived relative humidity(relativeHumidity)
- Retrieved liquid water path(liquidWaterPath)
- Retrieved cloud liquid water content(liquidWaterContent)
- Derived virtual temperature(virtualTemperature)
- Retrieved total precipitable water vapor using only 23.835 and 30.0 GHz(totalPrecipitableWater2)
- air temperature (NGM250 predicted)(temperature)
- Interpolated water vapor mixing ratio(waterVaporMixingRatio)
nimmwrprawM1.00: - Raw data stream - documentation not supported(raw)
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