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

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

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

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

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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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RC1: 'Review', Thomas Lavergne, 03 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Authors' response to Referee #1', Karsten Fennig, 12 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Formal review of the paper (C. Prigent)', Catherine Prigent, 17 Oct 2019
- AC1: ''Authors' response to Referee #2', Karsten Fennig, 11 Dec 2019

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AR by Karsten Fennig on behalf of the Authors (10 Feb 2020)

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.