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The matchup criteria between RO and CrIS observations are time less than 30 min, a distance less than 50 km, and over oceans to reduce the collocation and simulation uncertainty. Based on the information provided in the CrIS and RO observations, only upper temperature sounding channels with weighting function peak height (WFPH) above 200 hPa (~12 km) from the CrIS longwave infrared (LWIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) bands and water vapor channels from the CrIS mid-wave infrared (MWIR) band with WFPH above 500 hPa (~6.3 km) are selected for comparison to minimize the impacts from the surface emission, cloud absorption\/scattering, and atmospheric gaseous absorption. The absolute differences between CrIS observations and their CRTM simulations using RO data as input are less than 1.0 K for the majority of those selected channels. The double differences between CrIS observations on NOAA-20 and S-NPP using CRTM simulations as transfer references are very stable. They range from \u22120.05 K to 0.15 K for LWIR channels and \u22120.20 K to 0.10 K for SWIR channels during the two years from 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2021. For MWIR channels, the double differences range from \u22120.15 K to 0.25 K but have significant variations in both daily mean and monthly mean time series. The results provide ways to understand the qualities of RO retrieval and CrIS measurements: RO data can be used to assess the consistency and stability of CrIS observations quantitatively, and CrIS measurements have the quality to assess the quality and stability of RO retrievals.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14112721","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,7]],"date-time":"2022-06-07T00:10:33Z","timestamp":1654560633000},"page":"2721","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Assessment of the Consistency and Stability of CrIS Infrared Observations Using COSMIC-2 Radio Occultation Data over Ocean"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0279-9405","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yong","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3572-6525","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Changyong","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1589-7098","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xi","family":"Shao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3010-8544","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shu-Peng","family":"Ho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1008","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2017.2757940","article-title":"Calibration Algorithm for Cross-Track Infrared Sounder Full Spectral Resolution Measurements","volume":"56","author":"Han","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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