Coverage and Weighting Functions

Spatial Coverage and Weighting Functions for the TOVS channels

(a) Region covered by observations from SSU over a 24 period in a 60 degree wide longitudinal band from the north to the south pole. (b) Weighting functions (at 35 degrees off nadir) for SSU, MSU HIRS channels used to derive thicknesses. (From Bailey et al. 1992 )