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Taking the Amazon rainforest as the target area, this study combined the Microwave Temperature Sounder-2 (MWTS-2) data onboard the Chinese FengYun-3D (FY-3D) satellite with the Advanced Microwave Sounding unit-A (AMSU-A) data onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Meteorological Operational (MetOp) polar-orbiting meteorological satellites (i.e., NOAA-15, \u221218, \u221219, MetOp-A, -B). The double difference method was used to estimate and thus eliminate the inter-sensor bias, and a decadal diurnal correction was used to reduce the impact of different local equator crossing times on climate trends. The \u201cno-rain\u201d conditions were determined for AMSU-A data by channels 1 and 15, and for MWTS-2 data by channels 1 and 7. Finally, the decadal linear trends of atmospheric temperature from 1998 to 2020 were obtained after applying the inter-sensor bias calibration and inter-decadal diurnal correction to AMSU-A and MWTS-2 data from NOAA-15, \u221218, \u221219; MetOp-A, -B; and FY-3D. A warming trend was found in the AMSU-A window and tropospheric channels (1\u20139 and 15) and a cooling trend in stratospheric channels (10\u201314). The warming (cooling) trends of channels 7\u20139 (10) were relatively small. The warming (cooling) trends of AMSU-A channels 1\u20136 (14\u201315) were significantly reduced after the inter-decadal diurnal correction.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13163148","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,9]],"date-time":"2021-08-09T09:03:53Z","timestamp":1628499833000},"page":"3148","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Combining FY-3D MWTS-2 with AMSU-A Data for Inter-Decadal Diurnal Correction and Climate Trends of Atmospheric Temperature"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0805-4076","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xinlu","family":"Xia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Data Assimilation for Research and Application, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaolei","family":"Zou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Data Assimilation for Research and Application, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"59","DOI":"10.1175\/1520-0493(1982)110<0059:VISATP>2.0.CO;2","article-title":"Variations in Surface Air Temperatures: Part 1. 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