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Article Dans Une Revue Meteorologische Zeitschrift Année : 2013

Comparison of IASI water vapour products over complex terrain with COPS campaign data

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In this work, we compare IASI-retrieved vertical water vapour profiles and related precipitable water over a complex region, namely the Rhine Valley area, during the pre-operational period of IASI exploitation (June?August 2007). Both IASI water vapour mixing ratio profiles and integrated water vapour content are retrieved from L1C radiances spectra using two techniques and compared with water vapour related observations acquired during the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS) field campaign that took place in this area at that time (i.e. lidars, radiosoundings and a global positioning system - GPS - station network). This work addresses the issue of IASI vertical spatial resolution and its capability to detect two-layer water vapour structures such as those observed in a mountainous area and which play an important role in convective initiation or inhibition. We found that this capability mostly relies on the type of a-priori background vector (climatology or space-time colocated ECMWF analysis), which is used within the retrieval scheme. Systematic comparison of water vapour products derived from 71 IASI spectra confirms that IASI can retrieve water vapour amounts in 2 km width layers, in the lower troposphere, with an accuracy of approximately 10%.
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hal-00923710 , version 1 (28-05-2017)

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Guido Masiello, Carmine Serio, Thomas Deleporte, Hervé Herbin, Paolo Di Girolamo, et al.. Comparison of IASI water vapour products over complex terrain with COPS campaign data. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 2013, 22 (4), pp.471-487. ⟨10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0430⟩. ⟨hal-00923710⟩
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