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Sterna Inter-Calibration Study Exploring SNO, OCTM and Vicarious Techniques
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EUMETSAT - European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
Traditional techniques, such as Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses (SNOs) and vicarious inter-calibration over Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Targets (PICTs), have been widely used for this purpose.
The work focused on three inter-calibration approaches: Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses (SNO), Opportunistic Constant Target Matching (OCTM), and vicarious inter-calibration over Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Targets (PICTs).
AWS-12, AWS-14 Lower/mid-tropospheric temperature sounding SNO using ATMS-5 or ATMS-6 OCTM using ATMS and SEVIRI water-vapor channels SNO provides the most stable uncertainty performance.
AWS-21 89 GHz window Vicarious, using ATMS-16 SNO using ATMS-16 Vicarious is primary because it provides a broader dynamic range (163.4-297.8 K) than SNO (163.4-270.2 K).
AWS-31 166 GHz window / pseudo-window SNO using ATMS-17 Vicarious using MHS-2 SNO has substantially lower propagated uncertainty, but vicarious calibration covers a wider dynamic range and should be retained for scene-representativeness checks.