Validation of FY-3D MERSI-2 Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) Datasets Using Ground-Based PWV Data from AERONET

The medium resolution spectral imager-2 (MERSI-2) is one of the most important sensors onboard China’s latest polar-orbiting meteorological satellite, Fengyun-3D (FY-3D). The National Satellite Meteorological Center of China Meteorological Administration has developed four precipitable water vapor (PWV) datasets using five near-infrared bands of MERSI-2, including the P905 dataset, P936 dataset, P940 dataset and the fusion dataset of the above three datasets. For the convenience of users, we comprehensively evaluate the quality of these PWV datasets with the ground-based PWV data derived from Aerosol Robotic Network. The validation results show that the P905, P936 and fused PWV datasets have relatively large systematic errors (−0.10, −0.11 and −0.07 g/cm2), whereas the systematic error of the P940 dataset (−0.02 g/cm2) is very small. According to the overall accuracy of these four PWV datasets by our assessments, they can be ranked in descending order as P940 dataset, fused dataset, P936 dataset and P905 dataset. The root mean square error (RMSE), relative error (RE) and percentage of retrieval results with error within ±(0.05+0.10∗PWVAERONET) (PER10) of the P940 PWV dataset are 0.24 g/cm2, 0.10 and 76.36%, respectively. The RMSE, RE and PER10 of the P905 PWV dataset are 0.38 g/cm2, 0.15 and 57.72%, respectively. In order to obtain a clearer understanding of the accuracy of these four MERSI-2 PWV datasets, we compare the accuracy of these four MERSI-2 PWV datasets with that of the widely used MODIS PWV dataset and AIRS PWV dataset. The results of the comparison show that the accuracy of the MODIS PWV dataset is not as good as that of all four MERSI-2 PWV datasets, due to the serious overestimation of the MODIS PWV dataset (0.40 g/cm2), and the accuracy of the AIRS PWV dataset is worse than that of the P940 and fused MERSI-2 PWV datasets. In addition, we analyze the error distribution of the four PWV datasets in different locations, seasons and water vapor content. Finally, the reason why the fused PWV dataset is not the one with the highest accuracy among the four PWV datasets is discussed.

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