List of SPhR products
Main products
Water vapor content:
- Total Precipitable Water (TPW):
Water vapor content in the whole vertical column, from surface to tropopause - Layer Precipitable Water vapor content in three layers:
- Precipitable Water in the Boundary Layer (BL): from the surface to 850 hPa,
- Precipitable Water in the Middle Layer (ML): from 850 to 500hPa
- Precipitable Water in the High Layer (HL): from 500 hPa to the tropopause
Instability indices:
- Lifted Index (LI)
- Showalter Index (SHW)
- K-Index (KI)
Additional outputs:
Difference images between the satellite-retrieved parameters and their values if they are calculated from the background NWP fields.
Quality flags
Optional outputs:
Background, first guess and satellite-retrieved humidity and temperature profiles. (Note that the algorithm retrieves the temperature and humidity profiles first and then calculates the precipitable water and instability parameters from them.)