An Assessment of Data from the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder at the Met Office

Figure 10

Standard deviation of corrected brightness temperature difference for NOAA-18 AMSU temperature sounding channels, normalised with respect to the control experiment (black). Southern Hemisphere (a), tropics (b), and Northern Hemisphere (c). Red line is operational thinning; blue line shows reduced thinning (28 June–28 August 2012).

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