Research Article

Assessments of F16 Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder Antenna Temperatures at Lower Atmospheric Sounding Channels

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(a) Number of the SSMIS data from channel 1 to channel 4 for three orbits of observations used in the NCEP global forecast model, on August 9, 2006. (b) Vertical distribution of root mean square error (RMSE) difference in the predicted geopotential height along latitude between the five days of assimilation experiments of “Cntl” and “Test” by using the NCEP global forecast model (Courtesy to Masahiro Kazumori).
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