Effects of Ice Decontamination on GOES-12 Imager Calibration

More precise and accurate geostationary measurements are highly needed for satellite applications. It was well known that the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-12 imager was susceptible to water-ice contamination, and thus, several decontamination efforts were carried out to remove built-up ice on the instrument during operation. The intercalibration results of GOES-12 with the Atmospheric Infrared (IR) Sounder (AIRS) and the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) indicate that the calibration accuracy of GOES-12 was impacted by the decontamination procedures. Relative to the AIRS and the IASI, the GOES-12 imager radiances or brightness temperatures increased in the CO2 sounding channel (channel 6, 13.3 μm) and decreased in the water-vapor absorption channel (channel 3, 6.5 μm) but was less changed in the window channel (channel 4, 10.7 μm). A simple conceptual model is then proposed to give a physical explanation on the different behaviors of three IR channels in response to the ice-removal procedures.

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