Ocean water vapor and cloud burden trends derived from the topex microwave radiometer

Author

Brown, Shannon ; Desai, Shaishav ; Keihm, S. ; Ruf, C.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

886

Lastpage

889

Abstract

An end-of-mission recalibration effort was recently completed for Topex Microwave Radiometer to generate climate data records of precipitable water vapor and cloud liquid water for 1992-2005. The TMR climate data is analysed for trends. The global trend in precipitable water vapor is found to be 0.9 plusmn 0.06 mm/decade. Regional precipitable water vapor trends are found to be highly correlated with regional sea surface temperature trends. The cloud liquid water trends are observed to be generally negative outside the tropics and positive in the tropics.

Keywords

atmospheric humidity; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; climatology; clouds; microwave measurement; ocean temperature; radiometers; remote sensing; AD 1992 to 2005; TMR climate data; Topex Microwave Radiometer; climate data records; cloud burden trends; cloud liquid water; end-of-mission recalibration effort; ocean water vapor; regional precipitable water vapor trends; regional sea surface temperature trend; Atmospheric measurements; Clouds; Instruments; Microwave radiometry; Ocean temperature; Pollution measurement; Rain; Satellite broadcasting; Sea measurements; Water pollution; TMR; cloud liquid water trend; microwave radiometer; water vapor trend;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422939

Filename

4422939