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Therefore, they serve as a reference to assess the quality and sampling issues of IWV products from multiple satellite instruments that show different orbital and instrument characteristics. A direct pairwise comparison between one year of IWV data from GPS and satellite instruments reveals overall biases (in kg\/m\r\n          \r\n            \r\n              \r\n                \r\n                2\r\n              \r\n            \r\n          \r\n        ) of 1.77, 1.36, 1.11, and \u22120.31 for IASI, MIRS, MODIS, and MODIS-FUB, respectively. Computed monthly means show similar behaviors. No significant impact of averaging time and the low temporal sampling on aggregated satellite IWV data is found, mostly related to the noisy weather conditions in the German domain. In combination with SEVIRI cloud coverage, a change of shape of IWV frequency distributions towards a bi-modal distribution and loss of high IWV values are observed when limiting cases to daytime and clear sky. Overall, sampling affects mean IWV values only marginally, which are rather dominated by the overall retrieval bias, but can lead to significant changes in IWV frequency distributions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12071170","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,7]],"date-time":"2020-04-07T03:58:39Z","timestamp":1586231919000},"page":"1170","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Assessment of Sampling Effects on Various Satellite-Derived Integrated Water Vapor Datasets Using GPS Measurements in Germany as Reference"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3408-5925","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cintia","family":"Carbajal Henken","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Space Sciences, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin (FUB), Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165 Berlin, Germany"}]},{"given":"Lisa","family":"Dirks","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Pohligstra\u00dfe 3, 50969 Cologne, Germany"}]},{"given":"Sandra","family":"Steinke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Pohligstra\u00dfe 3, 50969 Cologne, Germany"}]},{"given":"Hannes","family":"Diedrich","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam\u2014Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2995-4778","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thomas","family":"August","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"EUMETSAT, Eumetsat Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1251-5805","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Susanne","family":"Crewell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Pohligstra\u00dfe 3, 50969 Cologne, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"197","DOI":"10.1175\/1520-0477(1997)078<0197:EAGMEB>2.0.CO;2","article-title":"Earth\u2019s annual global mean energy budget","volume":"78","author":"Kiehl","year":"1997","journal-title":"Bull. 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