The NOAA Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS): Recent Science Improvements and Validation Results

Christopher Grassotti1,2, Xiwu Zhan2, Sid Ahmed Boukabara3, Mohar Chattopadhyay2, Craig K Smith4, Tanvir Islam5 and James E Davies6, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, JCSDA, College Park, MD, United States, (4)ERT, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States