Abstract

AbstractThis paper examines precipitation retrievals from Kidd et al. (2022, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14132992) by applying the Precipitation Retrieval and Profiling Scheme to data observed by the NASA Time‐Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Millimeter‐wave Sounder (TMS) onboard the TROPICS Pathfinder satellite, a precursor to the TROPICS mission. We first compare the TMS precipitation retrieval performance over ocean with those from seven current operational passive microwave radiometers, including four conical scanning sensors [Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounders (SSMISs) onboard F16/F17/F18 satellites, and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2)] and three cross track scanning sensors [Microwave Humidity Sounders onboard NOAA19 and MetOpB satellites, and the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder onboard the National Polar‐orbiting Partnership satellite], using precipitation estimates from Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Microwave Imager (GMI) as the reference. We show that TMS performs similarly to the current operational cross track scanning sensors, while worse than conical scanning sensors largely due to the lack of low frequency channels (e.g., 19 GHz). Second, we create an adjusted TMS precipitation retrievals by combining the original TMS precipitation and the precipitation propagated from AMSR2 and SSMISs to the time/location of the TMS overpass, using our previously developed microwave‐to‐microwave propagation technique. Results show that the adjusted TMS precipitation performs better than the original TMS estimates. For example, the correlation of the original TMS and GMI estimates is 0.35 but increases to 0.49 when the adjusted TMS result is compared to GMI. The propagation technique lays the foundation to improve TMS precipitation when incorporating them into level‐3 merged products.

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