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Chen, H. (2015). Biases in Satellite-Derived Temperature Trends Due to Orbital Drift, Orbital Differences and Their Corrections. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-9303
The measurements from Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) have been extensively used for atmospheric temperature trend study during last several decades. The existences of inter-sensor biases and orbital drift, orbital differences among different satellites are two major challenges for climate study using long-term time series of satellite measurements. In this study, the impacts of orbital drift and orbital differences of satellites on AMSU-A derived temperature trends over Amazon rainforest are investigated. The AMSU-A near-nadir observations from NOAA-15, NOAA-18, NOAA-19, and MetOp-A during 1998 - 2014 are employed. The double difference method is firstly applied to obtain the estimates of inter-sensor biases for each paired AMSU-A instruments, in which NOAA-18 is used as a reference satellite. The inter-calibrated observations from the four satellites mentioned above are used to calculate monthly mean diurnal cycles of brightness temperature for each of the 15 AMSU-A channels. The diurnal correction method is then applied to all AMSU-A data using the estimated diurnal-cycle variations in order to obtain corrected data valid at the same local time. Finally, it is shown that the inter-sensor bias correction and diurnal correction have significant impacts on the AMSU-A derived long-term atmospheric temperature trends.
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A, climate trend, diurnal correction, inter-sensor bias correction, orbital differences, orbital drift
Date of Defense
February 26, 2015.
Submitted Note
A Thesis submitted to the Department of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Advisory Committee
Ming Cai, Professor Directing Thesis; Peter S. Ray, Committee Member; Zhaohua Wu, Committee Member.
Publisher
Florida State University
Identifier
FSU_migr_etd-9303
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Chen, H. (2015). Biases in Satellite-Derived Temperature Trends Due to Orbital Drift, Orbital Differences and Their Corrections. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-9303
