A Fundamental Climate Data Record of SMMR, SSM/I, and SSMIS brightness temperatures

Fennig, Karsten; Schröder, Marc; Andersson, Axel; Hollmann, Rainer

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-647-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 647–681, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-647-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 647–681, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-647-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Data description paper 20 Mar 2020

Data description paper | 20 Mar 2020

A Fundamental Climate Data Record of SMMR, SSM/I, and SSMIS brightness temperatures

Karsten Fennig et al.

Data sets

Fundamental Climate Data Record of Microwave Imager Radiances, Edition 3 K. Fennig, M. Schröder, and R. Hollmann https://doi.org/10.5676/EUM_SAF_CM/FCDR_MWI/V003

Short summary

A Fundamental Climate Data Record (FCDR) from satellite-borne microwave radiometers has been created, covering the time period from October 1978 to December 2015. This article describes how the observations are processed, calibrated, corrected, inter-calibrated, and evaluated in order to provide a homogeneous data record of brightness temperatures across 10 different instruments aboard three different satellite platforms.