microwave brightness temperature measurements
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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Fast Ray Simulation Method Applied in Microwave Radiation Brightness Temperature Imaging
... Image simulation of passive microwave radiation for the study of various targets is important. Radiation characteristics through simulation can aid in the understanding of the goal, explaining some radiation ...
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Bias Correction of Chinese Fengyun-3C Microwave Humidity and Temperature Sounder Measurements in Retrieval of Atmospheric Parameters
... The Microwave Humidity and Temperature sounder (MWHTS) on board the Fengyun (FY)-3C satellite measure the outgoing radiance form the Earth surface and atmospheric ...makes measurements in the ...
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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
... State University (59.88 ◦ N, 29.83 ◦ E) since June 2012 with a sampling interval about 1–2 s and an integration time of 1 s. The complete description of radiometers of the HAT- PRO type (below we shall omit “RPG-“ for ...
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SMOS brightness temperature assimilation into the Community Land Model
... mission) brightness temperatures at a single incident angle are assimi- lated into the Community Land Model (CLM) across Aus- tralia to improve soil moisture ...Community Microwave Emission Model (CMEM). ...
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Microwave radiometric measurements of soil moisture in Italy
... multifrequency microwave radiometer at L, C and X bands ...that microwave emission from soil, mainly at L-band ...2000. Measurements were carried out on bare soils, corn and wheat fields at different ...
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An integrated approach toward the incorporation of clouds in the temperature retrievals from microwave measurements
... the temperature profiles retrieved from radiometer measurements and from the radiosonde is observed ...the brightness temperature measured at ground base ...
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The global SMOS Level 3 daily soil moisture and brightness temperature maps
... to microwave wavelengths using active (Ulaby et ...SMOS measurements using the Levenberg– Marquardt optimisation algorithm to retrieve physical pa- rameters, mainly SM and ...
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Arctic Snow Microstructure Experiment for the development of snow emission modelling
... nary brightness temperature simulations will be repeated in the future using the physical snow properties collected by the modern techniques including SMP and micro-CT measure- ...metric measurements ...
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Influence of meter-scale wind-formed features on the variability of the microwave brightness temperature around Dome C in Antarctica
... property measurements collected at SP1 (“nor- mal area”, low brightness temperature) and SP2 (“hard snow area”, high brightness temperature) and the radiative transfer model results ...
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Validation of brightness and physical temperature from two scanning microwave radiometers in the 60 GHz O 2band using radiosonde measurements
... radiosonde measurements. TEMPERA has also been compared with a commercial microwave ra- diometer (HATPRO) manufactured by Radiometer Physics GmbH, Germany ...the microwave radiometer is one of the ...
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Pilot scale microwave sorting of porphyry copper ores: Part 1: laboratory investigations
... the temperature of ore fragments containing valuable minerals, providing a means of distinguishing fragments with different grades (Dimitrakis et ...highly microwave- absorbent minerals (such as nickel, ...
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The 2014 ALMA Long Baseline Campaign: Observations of Asteroid 3 Juno at 60 Kilometer Resolution
... surface temperature distributions of hundreds of main belt asteroids and Jupiter Trojans ( Lovell 2008; Busch 2009 ) ...important measurements of the thermal inertia and emissivity of their surface material ...
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Long-term assessment of the CALIPSO Imaging Infrared Radiometer (IIR) calibration and stability through simulated and observed comparisons with MODIS/Aqua and SEVIRI/Meteosat
... mospheric Absorption Atlas) and more than 2300 atmo- spheres from the Thermodynamic Initial Guess Retrieval (TIGR) input dataset. MODIS/Aqua ISRFs can be retrieved from the MODIS Characterization Support Team website ...
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SMOS Neural Network Soil Moisture Data Assimilation in a Land Surface Model and Atmospheric Impact
... MOS brightness temperatures as input and H-TESSEL model SM simulations as ...air temperature and relative humidity or NNSM-only DA are ...situ measurements of SM obtaining similar results to those of ...
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Calibration methods for microwave free space measurements
... At microwave frequencies the permittivity, permeability or humidity of materials can be determined from measurements of the scattering parameters. For materials realized as planar probes the parameters can ...
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Homemade Reflectometer for Brightness Measurements of Metal Coatings: Application in Laboratory Electroplating Experiments
... relative brightness of nickel coatings as a function of additives concentration is depicted in figure ...relative brightness is low, likely due to the deposition of a very rough deposit that causes a ...
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Multi-wavelength study of the G supernova remnant
... On purpose we show just the count/pixel image and did not correct for exposure, to illustrate where the remnant is highly underexposed due to the artifacts of the PSPC, clearly seen as a dark bar running from the lower ...
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The impact of melt ponds on summertime microwave brightness temperatures and sea-ice concentrations
... We compute sea-ice concentrations from this set of co- located AMSR-E brightness temperatures (Sect. 2.2) using eight selected sea-ice concentration algorithms investigated in the European Space Agency Climate ...
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Accuracy of microwave cavity perturbation measurements
... exact theory have been used to obtain the relative permittivity appreciable.. when the relative.[r] ...
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