Geocalibrating millimeter-wave spaceborne radiometers for global-scale cloud retrieval
Millimetre-wave radiometers will be on board of the future operational Eumetsat Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG) satellites with the primary objective to support weather and climate models. These radiometers, and in particular the Ice Cloud Imager (ICI), will provide channels from 183 up to 664 GHz at a spatial sampling of 16 km, greatly enhancing ice cloud retrieval capability at global scale to validate and improve microphysics parameterization.