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This study develops and implements a method to estimate these simulated Tb uncertainties based on a statistical comparison of two Community RTM (CRTM)-simulated operational MW sounder Tb data sets, separately generated using the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts (ECMWF) Atmospheric Model High Resolution (HRES) and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) sounding inputs. The study shows the smallest single-sensor CRTM-simulated Tb uncertainties, computed from differences of ECMWF HRES and GNSS RO soundings-based simulated Tbs data sets, are on the order of 10\u22124 relative to a 300 K Tb for the two NOAA operational MW sounder channels with low- to mid-tropospheric peak weighting function sensitivity. Meanwhile, inter-sensor-simulated Tb differences, computed from the double difference of single-sensor-simulated Tb differences, lead to CRTM-simulated Tb uncertainties on the order for 10\u22124 for at least nine MW sounder channels with peak sensitivity from the low-troposphere to the low-stratosphere. These findings provide the basis of future work to assess the ability to identify and quantify suspected on-orbit MW sounder calibration anomalies using RTM-driven, on-orbit MW instrument monitoring techniques.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15174162","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,24]],"date-time":"2023-08-24T10:23:40Z","timestamp":1692872620000},"page":"4162","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Estimating Uncertainties of Simulated MW Sounding Sensor Brightness Temperatures"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Siena","family":"Iacovazzi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Science and Technology, Inc., 7501 Greenway Center Drive, Suite 1100, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3616-351X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Quanhua","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NOAA\/NESDIS\/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hu","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cooperative Institute of Earth System Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"James","family":"Fuentes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Northrop Grumman, Azusa Facility, 1111 W 3rd St, Azusa, CA 91702, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ninghai","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Global Science and Technology, Inc., 7501 Greenway Center Drive, Suite 1100, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"2911","article-title":"A comparison of the impact of TOVS and ATOVS satellite sounding data on the accuracy of numerical weather forecasts","volume":"126","author":"English","year":"2000","journal-title":"Q. 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