Abstract
The Earth-scene brightness temperature (TB) seen by satellite radiometers is generally cold over the ocean due to low emissivity, warm over land with high emissivity, and with a large dynamic range dependent on frequency and polarization. Calibration at either cold or warm end cannot fully characterize the calibration dependence on the full TB dynamic range. We have developed calibration methods using both warm and cold reference TB tie points and applied them to the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission particularly for the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI). The two-end method characterizes the GMI calibration dependence on TB and enables the development of TB-dependent intercalibration correction tables for GPM.
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