The estimation of seasonal variation of retrieval error in tropospheric temperature microwave profiling

Abstract

We analyze the seasonal dependency of retrieval error in remote sensing problem while the quantity to be retrieved has seasonal evolution. In particular we estimate the seasonality in tropospheric measurements by HATPRO microwave profiler. For that we employ several methods: estimation using linearized retrieval procedure (employing error analysis), retrieval simulations, and direct comparison of real measurements with radiosonde data from the nearest aerological station.