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Atmospheric temperature profile for a tropical region from TIROS-N microwave sounding unit

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Atmospheric temperature profiles have been derived using 53·74 GHz, 54·96 GHz and 57·95 GHz channels data from the Microwave Sounding Unit onboard TIROS-N. For this purpose regression coefficients have been derived using MONEX-79 radiosonde data during the period May to July 1979. The temperature profiles derived at a few selected places were closer to radiosonde profiles than the profiles derived using standard regression coefficients for the tropical region supplied by NOAA.

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  1. Meteorology Division, Space Applications Centre (ISRO), 380 053, Ahmedabad, India

    B S Gohil, A K Sharma & P C Pandey

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Gohil, B.S., Sharma, A.K. & Pandey, P.C. Atmospheric temperature profile for a tropical region from TIROS-N microwave sounding unit. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet. Sci.) 90, 263–271 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03029207

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