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

Table 3

Biases and standard deviation (STD) characteristics of brightness temperature differences between F16 SSMIS and NOAA 16 AMSU from SCO measurements at four frequencies.

TDR type	BIAS/STD	53.6 GHz	54.4 GHz	55.5 GHz	57.2 GHz
No recalibration	BIAS	2.623	1.816	1.320	0.741
	STD	0.447	0.710	0.423	0.785
Emission only correction	BIAS	1.433	0.458	0.117	0.622
	STD	0.722	0.471	0.479	0.551
Emission plus warm count anomaly corrections	BIAS	1.460	0.648	0.180	0.357
	STD	0.661	0.432	0.378	0.566