Ocean water vapor and cloud burden trends derived from the topex microwave radiometer
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Brown, Shannon; Desai, Shailen; Keihm, Stephen; Wenwen Lu; Ruf, Christopher
- Source
- 2007 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International. :886-889 Jul, 2007
- Subject
- Geoscience
Signal Processing and Analysis
Clouds
Microwave radiometry
Atmospheric measurements
Sea measurements
Pollution measurement
Instruments
Rain
Water pollution
Ocean temperature
Satellite broadcasting
water vapor trend
cloud liquid water trend
TMR
microwave radiometer
- Language
- ISSN
- 2153-6996
2153-7003
An end-of-mission recalibration effort was recently completed for Topex Microwave Radiometer to generate climate data records of precipitable water vapor and cloud liquid water for 1992–2005. The TMR climate data is analysed for trends. The global trend in precipitable water vapor is found to be 0.9 ± 0.06 mm/decade. Regional precipitable water vapor trends are found to be highly correlated with regional sea surface temperature trends. The cloud liquid water trends are observed to be generally negative outside the tropics and positive in the tropics.