A Comparison of Information Content at Microwave to Millimeter Wave Bands for Atmospheric Sounding

Author:

Xiao Xianjun,Weng Fuzhong

Abstract

The brightness temperatures and their Jacobians with respect to atmospheric temperature and humidity at the microwave to millimeter wave spectral bands from 23 GHz to 424 GHz are simulated with the ECMWF IFS-137 profiles as inputs to the Advanced Radiative transfer Modeling System (ARMS). The information content of temperature and humidity is then calculated individually through the Shannon entropy which is contributed by a-priori background information and observations. For a typical set of measurement uncertainties, a high information content for atmospheric temperature is mainly obtained from V band near 50–70 GHz, whereas that for water vapor comes from G band near 183 GHz and Y1 band near 380 GHz. The channels within the G band have a large temperature information content mainly for lower and middle layers of troposphere and the Y1 band has a relatively large humidity information content for the entire troposphere. A large measurement uncertainty can significantly reduce the information content of each band. Thus, to make a best use of the data from each band, it is important to reduce the instrument calibration noise and increase the accuracy in forward radiative transfer simulation.

Funder

National Key Research and Development Program of China

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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