Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-645-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-645-2020
Research article
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11 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 11 Feb 2020

Using ground radar overlaps to verify the retrieval of calibration bias estimates from spaceborne platforms

Irene Crisologo and Maik Heistermann

Model code and software

IreneCrisologo/inter-radar: First release I. Crisologo and M. Heistermann https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3596959

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Short summary
Archives of radar observations often suffer from errors, one of which is calibration. However, it is possible to correct them after the fact by using satellite radars as a calibration reference. We propose improvements to this calibration method by considering factors that affect the data quality, such that poor quality data gets filtered out in the bias calculation by assigning weights. We also show that the bias can be interpolated in time even for days when there are no satellite data.