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Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3733-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-3733-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
Research article
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22 Mar 2019
Research article |  | 22 Mar 2019

On the interpretation of upper-tropospheric humidity based on a second-order retrieval from infrared radiances

Klaus Gierens and Kostas Eleftheratos

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We derive a new method to retrieve upper-tropospheric humidity (UTH) from High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) channel 12 brightness temperatures. With the new method we solve an old problem, namely that the wavelength change that occurred between HIRS 2 on NOAA 14 and HIRS 3 on NOAA 15 led to the retrieval of many more events with high UTH; that is, the time series shows strong jumps at high UTH values. This old problem is solved with the new retrieval.
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