CEOS EO HANDBOOK – INSTRUMENT SUMMARY
- MWS
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Full Name
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Microwave Sounder
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Status
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Being developed
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Instrument Agencies
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EUMETSAT , ESA
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Maturity
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Instrument Type
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Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders 
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Geometry
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Cross-track scanning
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Instrument Technology
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Absorption-band MW radiometer/spectrometer
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Sampling
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Sounding
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Data Access
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Open Access
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Data Format
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NetCDF-4
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Measurements and Applications
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All-weather night-day temperature sounding
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Resolution Summary
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Footprint size 17 - 40 km
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Swath Summary
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1700km
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Accuracy Summary
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Waveband Summary
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24 channels from 23.8 to 229 GHz
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Instrument Measurements
Measurements Overview
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Instrument Missions
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