Website

Remote Sensing Systems
` http://www.ssmi.com/msu/msu_data_description.html

The National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/msu.html

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Datasets

TLT	Temperature Lower Troposphere MSU 2 and AMSU 5
TMT	Temperature Middle Troposphere MSU 2 and AMSU 5
TLS	Temperature Lower Stratosphere MSU 4 and AMSU 9

References

References

J. R. Christy, R. W. Spencer, W. D. Braswell.
"MSU Tropospheric Temperatures: Dataset Construction and Radiosonde Comparisons"
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, vol. 17, pp. 1153-1170, 2000.

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NASA GHCC Global Temperature Anomaly Data ( http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature/ )

Carl A. Mears, Matthias Schabel, Frank J. Wentz.
"A reanalysis of the MSU Channel 2 Tropospheric Temperature Record"
Journal of Climate, Volume 16, pg. 3650-3664, November, 2003.

Carl A. Mears and Frank J. Wentz.
"The Effect of Diurnal Correction on Satellite-Derived Lower Tropospheric Temperature"
Science, published online 11 August 2005; 10.1126/science.1114772.

Carl A. Mears, Matthias Schabel, Frank J. Wentz, Benjamin D. Santer, Bala Govindasamy.
"Correcting the MSU Middle Tropospheric Temperature for Diurnal Drifts"
Proceedings of the International Geophysics and Remote Sensing Symposium, Volume III, pg. 1839-1841, 2002.

Prabhakara, C., R. Iacovazzi Jr, J.-M. Yoo, G. Dalu.
"Global warming: Estimation from satellite observations"
Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27(21), 3517-3520, 2000.

Matthias C. Schabel, Carl A. Mears, Frank J. Wentz.
"Stable Long-Term Retrieval of Tropospheric Temperature Time Series from the Microwave Sounding Unit,"
Proceedings of the International Geophysics and Remote Sensing Symposium, Volume III, pg. 1845-1847, 2002.