{"id":60,"date":"2004-11-28T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=60"},"modified":"2005-02-09T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T20:20:11","slug":"microwave-sounding-unit-msu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/11\/microwave-sounding-unit-msu\/","title":{"rendered":"Microwave Sounding Unit (&#8220;MSU&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"60\">\n<p>A Microwave Sounding Unit (&#8220;MSU&#8221;) is a device that has been installed on polar orbiting satellites to measure, from space, the intensity of  microwave radiation emitted by earth&#8217;s atmosphere.  Different &#8220;channels&#8221; of the MSU measure different frequencies of radiation which can, in turn, be related to temperature averages of the atmosphere over different vertical regions. Channel 2 measurements provide a vertically-weighted temperature estimate that emphasizes the mid-troposphere (with small contributions from the stratosphere), while Channel 4 largely measures temperatures in the lower stratosphere.  Information from MSUs have been used to generate the &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php?p=61>MSU Temperature Record<\/a>&#8220;.  More information on  MSU <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satellite_temperature_record\">can be found here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 60 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Microwave Sounding Unit (&#8220;MSU&#8221;) is a device that has been installed on polar orbiting satellites to measure, from space, the intensity of microwave radiation emitted by earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Different &#8220;channels&#8221; of the MSU measure different frequencies of radiation which can, in turn, be related to temperature averages of the atmosphere over different vertical regions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-glossary","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}