Start Date | Start Time | End Date | End Time | Data Quality Metric |
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02/26/1996 | 0000 | 04/01/1996 | 1859 | Suspect |
Subject: | SGP/MWR/B4 - Noisy 31 GHz channel |
DataStreams: | sgpmwrlosB4.a1, sgpmwrlosB4.00, sgpmwrlosB4.b1, sgpmwrlosB4.a0, sgpmwrB4.00 |
Description: | Instrument mentor analysis of the TIP data from 2/10/1996-2/14/1996 and found that the calibration of the microwave radiometer and did NOT need to be changed. The results are as follows: Date Tnd_23 Tnd_31 Feb 96 163.56 168.47 Sep 95 163.55 168.99 However, the deviations about the mean were considerably larger in the 31 GHz channel than the 23 GHz: 0.82 vs 0.14 K, respectively. Consequently the 31 GHz brightness temperature also showed considerably greater variation than the 23 GHz brightness temperature. The precipitable vapor shows good agreement with the colocated soundings, but instrument mentor recommends caution in using these data. The instrument was shipped to the manufacture and 31.4 GHz gunn fiode oscillator was replaced by Radiometrics. |
Suggestions: | Use data with caution |
Measurements: | sgpmwrlosB4.00: more
sgpmwrlosB4.a1: more sgpmwrB4.00: more sgpmwrlosB4.b1: more sgpmwrlosB4.a0: more |