Airborne Measurements of Polarized Hyperspectral Microwave Radiances to Increase the Accuracy of Temperature and Water Vapor Retrievals: an Information Content Analysis

Natalia Bliankinshtein1, Philip Gabriel2, Yi Huang3, Mengistu Wolde1, Simon Olvhammar4, Anders Emrich4, Martin Kores4 and Rolv Midthassel5, (1)National Research Council Canada, Flight Research Laboratory, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)Horizon Science and Technology, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)Omnisys Instruments AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, (5)European Space Agency, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands