Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing Technology, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100040, China
Abstract
The Calibration Microwave Radiometer (CMR) is a three-band radiometer deployed on the HY-2C satellite in a near-Earth orbit, and since it launched, there are few studies presented on the performance of CMR to date. Therefore, this paper focuses on providing an assessment of HY-2C CMR brightness temperature and wet troposphere correction (WTC). CMR works at 18.7 GHz, 23.8 GHz and 37 GHz in a nadir-viewing direction, aligned with the HY-2C radar altimeter. The wet troposphere path delay of the radar altimeter signal caused by water vapour and cloud liquid water content can be monitored and corrected by CMR. In this paper, guided by the concept of antenna pattern correction algorithm and a purely statistical method, we directly establish the function between the CMR antenna temperature and the model-derived WTC calculated by the European Centre from Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) Reanalysis data, which can obtain the brightness temperature and the WTC of CMR simultaneously. Firstly, the algorithm principle of CMR to establish the function between the antenna temperature and the model-derived WTC is introduced, and then the brightness temperature of CMR is evaluated using reference brightness temperatures of the Advanced Microwave Radiometer 2 (AMR-2) on Jason-3 satellite at crossover points. Furthermore, the performance of the CMR WTC is validated in three ways: (1) directly comparing with the colocated WTC measured by Jason-3 AMR-2, (2) directly comparing with model-derived WTC from ECMWF, which allows a rapid check at a global scale, (3) comparing the standard deviation of the Sea Surface Height (SSH) difference at crossover points using different WTC retrieval methods. The linear fit with Jason-3 brightness temperature and WTC in all non-precipitation conditions demonstrated a good agreement with Jason-3. In addition, the WTC of CMR has an obvious decrease in the standard deviation of the SSH difference compared with model-derived WTC, indicating the CMR can significantly improve the accuracy of the HY-2C SSH measurements. All the assessments indicate that the CMR performances are satisfying the expectations and fulfilling the mission requirements.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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