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Title: MWRRET Value-Added Product: The Retrieval of Liquid Water Path and Precipitable Water Vapor from Microwave Radiometer (MWR) Datasets

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/948370· OSTI ID:948370

This report provides a short description of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) microwave radiometer (MWR) RETrievel (MWRRET) Value-Added Product (VAP) algorithm. This algorithm utilizes complimentary physical and statistical retrieval methods and applies brightness temperature offsets to reduce spurious liquid water path (LWP) bias in clear skies resulting in significantly improved precipitable water vapor (PWV) and LWP retrievals. We present a general overview of the technique, input parameters, output products, and describe data quality checks. A more complete discussion of the theory and results is given in Turner et al. (2007b).

Research Organization:
DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
948370
Report Number(s):
DOE/SC-ARM/TR-081; TRN: US200908%%3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English