Mean Layer Temperature - UCAR (Lower Stratosphere)

This dataset provides advanced scientific researchers a high quality Climate Data Record (CDR) of Lower Stratosphere Mean Layer Temperatures.
Long term variation of Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (AMSU) channel 9 brightness and Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) channel 4 brightness measurements peak in the lower stratosphere providing the necessary signal to produce the Monthly Mean Layer Temperature in the Lower Stratosphere. Data (level-1b) from AMSU/MSU on board multiple satellites were calibrated using coincident Global Positioning System (GPS) Radio Occultation (RO) temperature profile measurements from 2001 to the current. The ‘adjusted’ MSU/AMSU data in the period of 2001 to 2014 serve as reference data to calibrate other overlapped MSU/AMSU data from 1980 to 2001.
Principal Investigator: Shu-peng Ben Ho, UCAR
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