freediver wrote on May 30
th, 2021 at 3:47pm:
You are so full of crap Lee. From your own link:
Quote:
Unlike scattered ground-based weather observing stations that measure the temperature two to three meters above land, satellites measure ground surface temperature, or skin temperature
That sentence does not appear in the reference of amsu's.
Oh I found it. You mean NASA doesn't understand how MSU/AMSU's work.
You don't understand MSU/AMSU's do you?
"Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU)"
"These four channels measured the
atmospheric temperature in four thick layers spanning the surface through the stratosphere. The were 9 MSUs in total. "
"Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU)"
"Of the 15 channels, 11 (Channels 4 through 14) are located in the 60 GHz absorption complex and thus are most closely related to atmospheric temepratures at various heights above the surface. The increased number of channels relative to MSU means that AMSU-A
samples the temperature of the atmosphere in a larger number of layers. The AMSU measurement footprints are also smaller than those for MSU, leading to higher spatial resolution. 3 AMSU channels (Channels 5,7,and 9) are closely matched to MSU channels 2,3 and 4. By using these channels,we have extended our climate-quality dataset to the present."
http://www.remss.com/missions/amsu/I thiught I better repeat the reference as you seemed to have lost it.
BTW - I see you haven't backed up your assertion of a hint. Why is that? It doesn't exist? oh noes.