Efficiency of Accounting of Horizontal Statistical Dependences at Restoration of Temperature-Humidity Atmosphere Profiles by MW Spectrum

Additional a priori information on the state of the atmosphere with respect to the average climatic characteristics potentially improves the efficiency of retrieval algorithms in comparison to the usage of mean climatic statistics of the atmosphere. The developed methodology introduces an efficiency measure that allows the estimation of the efficiency of a priori information usage for atmospheric profile retrieval from satellite MW data processing, namely, the usage of the horizontal statistical dependences of variations in atmospheric profiles.