Retrieval of Layer Averaged Relative Humidity Profiles from MHS Observations over Tropical Region

Table 1

Statistics of the tropical atmosphere taken for simulation.

Parameters	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Standard deviation
LARH (1000–550) hPa (%)	5.54	95.26	28.61	13.80
LARH (1000–400) hPa (%)	3.87	84.14	23.86	11.74
LARH (850–400) hPa (%)	0.99	82.99	21.75	12.83
LARH (850–250) hPa (%)	2.64	77.82	21.61	11.19
LARH (700–250) hPa (%)	1.54	77.79	19.79	12.10
LARH (700–100) hPa (%)	1.18	70.98	21.22	10.09
LARH (550–100) hPa (%)	1.04	72.77	20.96	10.24
BT (182.31 GHz) (K)	239.1	278.7	256.68	6.84
BT (180.31 GHz) (K)	255.2	287.6	271.79	5.40
BT (190.31 GHz) (K)	267.1	300.5	281.61	4.47