Changes to this algorithm include:

Complete recalibration of AMSR-E Brightness Temperatures to the RSS Version 8 standard, as follows:

• Intercalibrated with other microwave radiometers, especially GMI[1], WindSat, and TMI[2].
• Calibration with improved Ocean Radiative Transfer Model (ORTM): The width of the 22 GHz water vapor line reduced by 4%.
• Improved calibration over warm scenes (land and cryosphere), based on heavily vegetated tropical rainforest scenes. Specifically rainforest emissivity, based on well calibrated GMI observations, and nonlinearity corrections for all channels.
• Adjusted Antenna Pattern Coefficients (APC) for cross-polarization and spillover.
• Shifted the 18.7 GHz center observation frequency back too nominal.
• Updated the algorithm to compute effective hot load temperature based on 1 hour colocations with TMI.