Supplement of Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 3947–3961, 2017https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3947-2017-supplement© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed underthe Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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Long-term observations minus background monitoring of ground-basedbrightness temperatures from a microwave radiometer networkFrancesco De Angelis et al.

Correspondence to: F. De Angelis (francesco.deangelis1@graduate.univaq.it)

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FigureA1:StatisticsofthedifferencesbetweenobservationsandbackgroundTB.ObservationsareTBmeasuredbyground-basedMWR. Background counterparts are TB simulated with RTTOV-gb from AROME-France 3-hour forecast profiles in clear-skyconditionsat42°elevationangle.StatisticsforJOYCE,LACROS,Payerne,SIRTA,andCESARarereported.Biasesareshownwithblacklines,standarddeviationswithredlinesandRMSwithbluelines.

ELEVATION ANGLE 42.0°

JOYCE LAC

PAY SIRTA

CES

FigureA2:StatisticsofthedifferencesbetweenobservationsandbackgroundTB,asinFigure3,at30°elevationangle.StatisticsforJOYCE,LACROS,Payerne,SIRTA,andCESARarereported.Biasesareshownwithblacklines,standarddeviationswithredlinesandRMSwithbluelines.

ELEVATION ANGLE 30.0° JOYCE LAC

PAY SIRTA

CES

FigureA3:StatisticsofthedifferencesbetweenobservationsandbackgroundTB,asinFigure3,at19.2°elevationangle.StatisticsforJOYCE,LACROS,Payerne,SIRTA,CESAR,andRAOarereported.Biasesareshownwithblacklines,standarddeviationswithredlinesandRMSwithbluelines.StatisticsfromRAOreferto15.7°elevationangle.

JOYCE LAC

PAY SIRTA

CES RAO

15.7°

ELEVATION ANGLE 19.2°

FigureA4:StatisticsofthedifferencesbetweenobservationsandbackgroundTB,asinFigure3,at10.2°elevationangle.StatisticsforJOYCE,LACROS,Payerne,SIRTA,andCESARarereported.

JOYCE LAC

PAY SIRTA

CES

ELEVATION ANGLE 10.2°

FigureA5:StatisticsofthedifferencesbetweenobservationsandbackgroundTB,asinFigure3,at5.4°elevationangle.StatisticsforJOYCE,LACROS,Payerne,SIRTA,andCESARarereported.

JOYCE LAC

PAY SIRTA

CES

ELEVATION ANGLE 5.4°