STAR Microwave Sounding Calibration and Trends
References
Global ocean mean intersatellite Tb difference time series for AMSU-A operational calibration for satellites NOAA 15, 16, 17, and 18; MetOp-A; and Aqua for different channels. Differences are chosen against the reference satellites; thus, the satellite pairs shown for channel 6 are different from other channels
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