Sensitivity analysis of satellite-retrieved SST using IR data from COMS/MI

Abstract

Abstract : Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is the temperature close to the ocean’s surface and affects theEarth’s atmosphere as an important parameter for the climate circulation and change. The SST from satellitestill has biases from the error in specifying retrieval coefficients from either forward modeling or instrumentalbiases. So in this paper, we performed sensitivity analysis using input parameter of the SST to notice that theSST is most affected among the input parameter. We used Infrared (IR) data from the Communication, Ocean,and Meteorological Satellite (COMS)/Meteorological Imager (MI) from April 2011 to March 2012. We alsoused the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) correction to quality of the IR data from COMS.SST was calculated by substituting the input parameters; IR data with or without the GSICS correction. Theresults of this sensitivity analysis, the SST was sensitive from -0.0403 to 0.2743 K when the IR data werechanged by the GSICS corrections. Key Words :