FIDUCEO project: (Microwave): Report on the MW FCDR: Uncertainty

This document is one of the five documents that make up the D2-2 report on "traceability chains for FCDRs". Since the original project proposal our thoughts have refined and while this document describes the "sequence of measurement standards and calibrations that is used to relate a measurement result to a reference" (the VIM definition of a traceability chain), it is not presenting this in the form of a chain. This document provides an overview of the uncertainty analysis for the analysed sensors along with the methods to establish metrological traceability for the developed FCDRs. This document is specifically about the MicrowaveFCDR (MHS, SSM-T2, AMSU-B). The document D2-2a provides an overview of the purposes of these documents and explains the basis of the effects tables.