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An Investigation of Current and Future Data Systems in Numerical MeteorologyThe Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) and the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) constitute the advanced microwave sounding system to be flown on the EOS-PM platform. Similar instruments (the AMSU-A corresponding to the AMSU and the AMSU-B corresponding to the MHS) are scheduled to become operational on the NOAA polar orbiting satellites beginning with NOAA-K. The unique characteristics of the AMSU-MHS instruments, as compared to the capabilities of their infrared and microwave predecessors, introduce new opportunities, and challenges, for operational retrievals of atmospheric structure. Not only will these new data improve present capabilities for the retrieval of atmospheric profiles of temperature and moisture, but they will provide the only opportunity for successfully retrieving atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles in the presence of modest amounts of cloud and precipitation. A complementary opportunity is presented by the potential of the AMSU-MHS to obtain information about the structure of clouds and precipitation. The data sets obtained will contribute to the current knowledge of global water and energy budgets, and provide critical information on the horizontal and vertical distribution of tropospheric water vapor, the spatial and temporal distribution of rain, and the relationship of cloud formation and dissipation to atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics.
Document ID
19970018620
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Diak, George R. (Wisconsin Univ. Madison, WI United States)
Burns, Barbara A. (Wisconsin Univ. Madison, WI United States)
Wu, Xiangqian (Wisconsin Univ. Madison, WI United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1996
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.26:203714
NASA-CR-203714
Accession Number
97N20557
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG8-927
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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