Assessments of F16 Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder Antenna Temperatures at Lower Atmospheric Sounding Channels

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="420985.fig.009a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2009/420985/figures/420985.fig.009a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Cal. SSMIS observations-simulations at 54.4 GHz, 2006-03-20</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="420985.fig.009b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2009/420985/figures/420985.fig.009b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Cal. SSMIS observations-simulations at 55.5 GHz, 2006-03-20</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Global distributions of antenna temperature bias between F16 CTDR measurements and radiative transfer simulations where “Cal.” denotes the calibrated antenna temperatures using the newly developed calibration algorithm for (a) 54.4 GHz and (b) 55.5 GHz.</table>

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Figure 9: Assessments of F16 Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder Antenna Temperatures at Lower Atmospheric Sounding Channels 