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Calibrating the Haiyang-2A Calibration Microwave Radiometer When the 18.7-GHz Band Fails

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The wet tropospheric correction (WTC) retrieved from the onboard calibration microwave radiometer (CMR) of Haiyang-2A (HY-2A) is critical in monitoring the global sea level. However, the CMR WTC became significantly… Click to show full abstract

The wet tropospheric correction (WTC) retrieved from the onboard calibration microwave radiometer (CMR) of Haiyang-2A (HY-2A) is critical in monitoring the global sea level. However, the CMR WTC became significantly biased from June 2017 due to the failure of the 18.7-GHz band, which caused massive errors in the sea surface height (SSH) measurements. We investigate the accuracy of the CMR WTC derived from the two remaining bands to address this problem. A comprehensive evaluation using multisource data demonstrates that the dual-band + backscattering coefficient (BC) algorithm achieves comparable accuracy to the three-band algorithm, and it does not suffer from any large errors when the equipment works well. Hence, we calibrated the HY-2A CMR data with the dual-band + BC algorithm when the 18.7-GHz band failed, and the accuracy of the CMR WTC is improved from 2.34 to 1.39 cm compared with European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERA5 data. In addition, the SSH measurements are improved significantly by a maximum of 2 cm in mean value using the dual-band + BC WTC during the failure period of HY-2A CMR. Compared with Jason-3 SSH measurements, the HY-2A with dual-band + BC shows a slightly larger difference than HY-2A with three-band by 0.1 cm in rms. This method prolongs the operational lifetime of the HY-2A CMR and could be used in the reprocessing of HY-2A observations.

Keywords: cmr; band; microwave radiometer; ghz band; calibration microwave

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Year Published: 2022

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