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Retrieval of Sea Surface Temperature from TRMM VIRS

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The Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS) aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a five-channel radiometer with wavelength from 0.6 to 12 μm. Daily 0.125° sea surface temperature (SST) data from VIRS were first produced at the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) for comparison with SST from TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). In order to obtain accurate high spatial resolution SST for the merging of SST from infrared and microwave measurements, new SST retrieval coefficients of the Multichannel SST (MCSST) algorithm were generated using the global matchups from VIRS brightness temperature (BT) and Global Telecommunications System (GTS) SST. Cloud detection was improved and striping noise was eliminated. One-year global VIRS level-1B data were reprocessed using the MCSST algorithm and the advanced cloud/noise treatments. The bias and standard deviation between VIRS split-window SST and in situ SST are 0.10°C and 0.63°C, and for triple-window SST, are 0.06°C and 0.48°C. The results indicate that the reprocessing algorithm is capable of retrieving high quality SST from VIRS data.

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  1. Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan

    Lei Guan & Hiroshi Kawamura

  2. Ocean Remote Sensing Institute, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China

    Lei Guan

  3. National Space Development Agency of Japan, Harumi Island Triton Square X-23, Earth Observation Research Center, Harumi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-6023, Japan

    Hiroshi Murakami

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Guan, L., Kawamura, H. & Murakami, H. Retrieval of Sea Surface Temperature from TRMM VIRS. Journal of Oceanography 59, 245–249 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025551507476

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