ground-based microwave radiometers
Radiometric Measurement Of Rainfall Intensity Using Dual Frequency Technique
... used ground-based rain gauge data to evaluate the accuracy of the rainfall intensity estimation of satellite ...by ground-based microwave radiometers could be ...Moreover, ...
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Cloud liquid water path in the sub-Arctic region of Europe as derived from ground-based and space-borne remote observations
... from ground- based infrared radiation measurements by an interferome- ter and applied this method to observational data obtained in Alaska (the limitation of the method is the inapplicabil- ity to thick ...
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Investigation of ground-based microwave radiometer calibration techniques at 530 hPa
... Abstract. Ground-based microwave radiometers (MWR) are becoming more and more common for remotely sensing the atmospheric temperature and humidity profile as well as path-integrated cloud ...
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Evaluation and Correction of Ground Based Microwave Radiometer Observations Based on NCEP FNL Data
... Ground-based microwave radiometers are commonly used for atmospheric ob- servations [1] and can be operated continuously with a typical temporal resolu- tion of 1 ...of ...
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Time series inversion of spectra from ground-based radiometers
... The use of different temporal resolutions is exemplified by, for example, looking at microwave spectrometers mea- suring water vapour in the middle atmosphere. One exam- ple is the the Wasserdampf- und ...
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Accuracy of retrieving temperature and humidity profiles by ground-based microwave radiometry in truly complex terrain
... With the knowledge of improved statistical performance, we now evaluate our new IMGI retrieval for a couple of in- version cases. Figure 5 shows the same case of a deep night- time inversion as in Fig. 2, but for the ...
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The Atmospheric radiation measurement (ARM) program network of microwave radiometers: instrumentation, data, and retrievals
... 12-channel microwave radiometers are derived every 5 min with a seasonal statistical retrieval and are available at two of the ARM sites (see Table ...
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Measurements of Humidity in the Atmosphere and Validation Experiments (MOHAVE)-2009: overview of campaign operations and results
... 22-GHz microwave radiome- ter for profile measurements of middle atmospheric water va- por specifically designed for the use in measurement cam- ...for ground based 22-GHZ water vapor ...
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A Comparative Evaluation of Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Using Empirical Algorithms and Multivariate regressions
... integrating microwave TB and visible/infrared reflectance through support vector machine (SVM) regression ...passive microwave (PM) radiometers have provided an opportunity to estimate Snow water ...
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GROMOS-C, a novel ground-based microwave radiometer for ozone measurement campaigns
... Satellite-borne radiometers provide a good vertical resolution; however they only pass a maximum of 2 times a day by the same position and hence the temporal resolution is insufficient for dynamic studies (Hocke ...
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Precipitable water vapour content from ESR/SKYNET sun–sky radiometers: validation against GNSS/GPS and AERONET over three different sites in Europe
... crowave radiometers (Elgered et ...is based on the signal received from position- ing satellites by ground-based antennas; W calculated with this technique has a high temporal resolution ...
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ARIS-Campaign: intercomparison of three ground based 22 GHz radiometers for middle atmospheric water vapor at the Zugspitze in winter 2009
... loads, microwave absorbers at 32 K, 75 K and 310 K, allow a wide range of calibration schemes (total power, reference beam and ...the microwave absorber from excessive ...
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Validation of middle-atmospheric campaign-based water vapour measured by the ground-based microwave radiometer MIAWARA-C
... MIAWARA-C is a compact radiometer equipped with its own weather station, and is designed for use in measurement campaigns. The whole instrument, front end, back end and computer, is placed in the same housing with a rain ...
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Ozone profiles above Kiruna from two ground-based radiometers
... two ground-based millimetre-wave radiometers in Kiruna, ...Kiruna Microwave Ra- diometer (KIMRA) and the Millimeter wave Radiometer 2 (MIRA ...the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) aboard ...
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Operational profiling of temperature using ground-based microwave radiometry at Payerne: prospects and challenges
... sensitive radiometers, a fact which is realized in the HATPRO instru- ment by a high thermal stability and by using wide band- widths up to 2 GHz in the optically thick channels ...
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Microwave Radiometer Analysis for Imaging and Vehicular Systems
... along. Microwave radiometry provides an exceptional ability equally for find a good oil spill with waters as well as to figure out its breadth as well as ...
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A Research on Space Solar Power
... COMMUNICATION SATELLITES BENEFITS: Looking at the effects of SPSs on communications satellites is a waste of time unless we consider the revolutionary effects of large scale space infrastructure associated with SPSs. If ...
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Mesospheric CO above Troll station, Antarctica observed by a ground based microwave radiometer
... their ground based radiometer in Kiruna and found a similar correlation between the short-term variations in MLS and ra- diometer ...the ground-based ...
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Biases caused by the instrument bandwidth and beam width on simulated brightness temperature measurements from scanning microwave radiometers
... Abstract. More so than the traditional fixed radiometers, the scanning radiometer requires a careful design to ensure high quality measurements. Here the impact of the radiome- ter characteristics (e.g., antenna ...
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The effect of the global UV irradiance measurement accuracy on the single scattering albedo retrieval
... Aerosols affect the Earth’s radiative balance both directly and indirectly (e.g. Charlson et al., 1992). Even though the un- derstanding of direct effects is higher than that of indirect effects (Rosenfeld and Lensky, ...
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