An Evaluation of MWR Retrievals of Liquid Water Path
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Figure 2 shows a plot of the associated MWR-retrieved water vapor (WV) from (1) an iterative or minimization approach based on a single nearby (in time) radiosonde profile and using the Liebe 87 absorption model, (2) the standard ARM statistical retrieval (data straight from the archive), and (3) the MWR profile (PROF) value-added procedure. The MWR PROF retrieval (one of the ARM standard value-added procedures) combines Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS) and Lidar data to “estimate” an atmospheric profile upon which to perform an iterative retrieval, but is run only once per hour.
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