Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-647-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-647-2020
Data description paper
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20 Mar 2020
Data description paper |  | 20 Mar 2020

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

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

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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

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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.