8a.2 Pre-operational Assimilation Testing of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (dmsp) Special Sensor Microwave Imager/sounder (ssmi/s)
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On October 18, 2003, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) successfully launched the DMSP F16 satellite with the first Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMI/S) instrument aboard. The SSMI/S is a conically-scanning passive microwave radiometer that includes seven temperature-sounding channels with weighting functions peaking below 30 km (channels 1-7), and six peaking between 30 km and 80 km (channels 19-24) (Fig. 1).
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Pre-Operational Assimilation Testing of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS)
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