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Version | Date | Description of modification | Chapters / Sections | 1.1 | 18/10/2019 | First version for review | all |
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Deliverable ID | Product title | Product type (CDR, ICDR) | Version number | Delivery date | D3.3.12v1.1-P3 | Water Vapour UTH_MW ICDR v1.1 (Quarterly) – Period 3 | ICDR | 1.1 | 30/09/2019 | D3.3.12v1.1-P4 | Water Vapour UTH_MW ICDR v1.2 (Quarterly) – Period 4 | ICDR | 1.2 | 31/03/2020 | D3.3.12v1.1-P5 | Water Vapour UTH_MW ICDR v1.3 (Quarterly) – Period 5 | ICDR | 1.3 | 30/09/2020 | D3.3.12v1.1-P6 | Water Vapour UTH_MW ICDR v1.4 (Quarterly) – Period 6 | ICDR | 1.4 | 30/06/2021 |
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Acronym | Definition | ATBD | Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document | C3S | Copernicus Climate Change Service | CLASS | Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System | CM SAF | Climate Monitoring Satellite Application Facility | ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting | EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites | FCDR | Fundamental Climate Data Record | ICDR | Interim Climate Data Record | MHS | Microwave Humidity Sounder | NetCDF | Network Common Data Form | NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | PRD | Product Requirements Document | RH | Relative Humidity | TCDR | Thematic Climate Data Record | UTH | Upper Tropospheric Humidity |
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Scope of the document
This document is the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), version 1.1, for the microwave upper tropospheric humidity (UTH) ICDR product, produced by the Met Office from the microwave humidity sounding instrument Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) on-board the series of NOAA satellites (18 and 19) (https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites/view/340, https://www.wmosat.info/oscar/satellites/view/341) and the MetOp satellites (A and B) (https://www.wmosat.info/oscar/satellites/view/306, https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/satellites/view/307), from January 2016 to May 2019.For further details, refer to the EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring Satellite Application Facility (CM SAF) ATBD [D1].
Executive summary
This report describes the algorithms used to generate the Upper Tropospheric Humidity (UTH) product produced by the Met Office from the microwave humidity sounding instrument MHS, including the scientific justification for the algorithms selected and their assumptions and limitations. Measurements in a water vapour channel which probes the upper troposphere are approximately linearly dependent on the logarithm of the Jacobian weighted upper-tropospheric relative humidity (RH), hereafter referred to as UTH. At microwave frequencies, the upper tropospheric humidity channel is located at 183.31±1.00 GHz for the MHS instrument.
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UTH is Jacobian weighted relative humidity (RH) in the upper troposphere. It is estimated by a retrieval scheme using relative humidity Jacobians. A daily UTH layer combining ascending and descending layers has been introduced to minimise diurnal cycle impacts due to satellite orbital drift. The coefficients used in the relationship between the natural logarithm of UTH and the brightness temperature of upper tropospheric water vapour emissions are determined by linear regression, using a training data set of atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles. Further details are provided in the CM SAF ATBD [D1].
Instruments
The instruments of concern here are cross-track scanning passive total power microwave radiometers intended for humidity sounding (surface to 200 hPa), with three channels in the 183 GHz water vapour line but at different distances from its centre. In addition, two channels in the atmospheric "window" at lower frequencies are used primarily for cloud clearing and quality control. Further details are provided in the CM SAF ATBD [D1].
The input data for this ICDR were from the NOAA CLASS dataset downloaded for each microwave humidity sounder (i.e. NOAA-18/19 and MetOp-A/B).MHS on NOAA-18 ceased in October 2018 and no data has been received since. Since July 2009, the relevant MHS channel of NOAA-19, channel 3, has exhibited erratic behavior and should not be used (Hans et al, 2017).
Algorithms
The natural logarithm of UTH, which is the Jacobian weighted relative humidity in the upper troposphere, can be expressed as a linear function of the radiance emanated from water vapour emissions in the upper troposphere, expressed in brightness temperature, Tb, (Buehler and John (2005)):
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Further details are provided in the CM SAF ATBD [D1].
Output data
The UTH product is provided to users on a global, daily, 1.0° x 1.0° latitude-longitude grid.
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These daily gridded data, which includes both ascending and descending UTH fields and the daily mean UTH, are provided in NetCDF-4 (https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/) files. Further details are provided in the CM SAF ATBD [D1].
For figures and tables refer to the CM SAF ATBD [D1].
References
Hans, I.; Burgdorf, M.; John, V.O.; Mittaz, J.; Buehler, S.A. Noise performance of microwave humidity sounders over their lifetime. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2017, 10, 4927–4945.
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