Studies of FY-3 Observations over the Past 10 Years: A Review

Abstract

With the rapid advances and abundant observations from Chinese Fengyun-3 (FY-3) meteorological satellites, it is of great interest to summarize a decade of quality assessments of FY-3 observations. The topics covered are noise characterization, bias estimation, striping noise detection and mitigation of striping noise, radio frequency interference detection, geolocation accuracy estimation and improvement, data assimilation cloud detection and quality control for observations from the MicroWave Temperature Sounder (MWTS), the MicroWave Humidity Sounder (MWHS), the MicroWave Radiation Imager (MWRI) and the Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (HIRAS) instruments on board FY-3A/B/C/D. Whether and how much FY-3 data assimilation could improve the numerical weather forecast skill strongly depends on how well the FY-3 data characteristics and errors listed above are known. This review article shall contribute to promoting internal and national usages of FY-3 observations for weather and climate studies.