Microwave radiometer
Assessment of the total precipitable water from a sun photometer, microwave radiometer and radiosondes at a continental site in southeastern Europe
... cated microwave radiometer and nearby radiosondes during the period ...the microwave radiometer de- pict the same daily cycle, with some discrepancies during early morning and late afternoon ...
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Investigation of ground-based microwave radiometer calibration techniques at 530 hPa
... RHUBC-II was conducted within the dry season between August and October 2009. The ARM program set up a Self- Kontained Instrument Platform (SKIP) providing infrastruc- ture and power supply for a variety of different ...
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Uncertainties of ground-based microwave radiometer retrievals in zenith and off-zenith observations under snow conditions
... Abstract. This paper is to investigate the uncertainties of microwave radiometer (MWR) retrievals in snow conditions and also explore the discrepancies of MWR retrievals in zenith and off-zenith ...
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Profiling Boundary Layer Temperature Using Microwave Radiometer in East Coast of China
... channel microwave radiometer (GMR) offers a new opportunity to automate atmospheric observations by providing temperature, humidity and liquid water content with high time resolution, such as MP- 3000A ...
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Optimal estimation of water vapour profiles using a combination of Raman lidar and microwave radiometer
... Abstract. In this work, a two-step algorithm to obtain wa- ter vapour profiles from a combination of Raman lidar and microwave radiometer is presented. Both instruments were applied during an intensive ...
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Mesospheric CO above Troll station, Antarctica observed by a ground based microwave radiometer
... from Microwave Limb Sounder on the Aura satellite (Aura / MLS) and Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with Specified Dynamics ...BAS microwave radiometer compared to both reference ...based ...
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Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for temperature and humidity profile retrieval from microwave radiometer observations
... ity profiles in the upper troposphere and lower-stratospheric (UTLS) region. Cimini et al. (2003) discussed the perfor- mance, calibration and achievable accuracy of a set of four MWRs operating in the 20–30 GHz band for ...
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Forecast indices from a ground-based microwave radiometer for operational meteorology
... commercial microwave radiometer profil- ers (MWRPs) are robust and unattended instruments provid- ing real-time, accurate atmospheric observations at ∼ 1 min temporal resolution under nearly all weather ...
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Atmospheric ozone above Troll station, Antarctica observed by a ground based microwave radiometer
... Acknowledgements. We gratefully thank Ole Martin Chris- tensen for help on the implementation and understanding of ARTS 2. Stephan Thomas Kral has contributed with valuable dis- cussions on interpretation of the ...
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Evaluation and Correction of Ground Based Microwave Radiometer Observations Based on NCEP FNL Data
... a microwave radiometer is the brightness temperature, which is defined as the electromagnetic energy received by the radiometer at a certain reference ...the microwave radiometer is ...
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A cloud detection algorithm using the downwelling infrared radiance measured by an infrared pyrometer of the ground-based microwave radiometer
... Overall, the new cloud detection algorithm performs well even with only a limited amount of information available. The results are comparable with the lidar ceilometer and in- dicate the possibility of better performance ...
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Short term stratospheric ozone fluctuations observed by GROMOS microwave radiometer at Bern
... The short temporal perturbations in stratospheric ozone were investigated through the data recorded by the GRO- MOS ground-based microwave radiometer at Bern from June 2011 to May 2012. In the present ...
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Statistical Approach to Spectrogram Analysis for Radio-Frequency Interference Detection and Mitigation in an L-band Microwave Radiometer
... Abstract: For the elimination of radio-frequency interference (RFI) in a passive microwave radiometer, the threshold level is generally calculated from the mean value and standard deviation. However, a ...
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RTTOV-gb – adapting the fast radiative transfer model RTTOV for the assimilation of ground-based microwave radiometer observations
... between microwave radiometer and radiosonde profiles larger than 1 mm have been discarded in order to reduce instrumental un- certainties involved in the ...crowave radiometer and simulated with both ...
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Mixing layer height retrievals by multichannel microwave radiometer observations
... microwave radiometer (MWR) observations can provide a valuable contribution to the determination of the MLH, pro- viding estimates of temperature and humidity in the lower ...
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Validation of middle-atmospheric campaign-based water vapour measured by the ground-based microwave radiometer MIAWARA-C
... ground-based microwave ra- ...ground-based microwave radiometer for middle-atmospheric water vapour designed for use on measurement campaigns for both atmospheric case studies and instrument ...
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Microwave Radiometer Analysis for Imaging and Vehicular Systems
... of microwave flame diagnosis with transferring vehicles have been ...a microwave radiometer, mounted around a new rail or possibly a street, is apparently promising, when dielectric wall structure ...
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GROMOS-C, a novel ground-based microwave radiometer for ozone measurement campaigns
... Figure 17 shows an ozone profile retrieved from a 1-day spectrum with 300 MHz bandwidth around the line centre. The chosen date corresponds to a typical day with very low opacity. For the retrieval, a ...
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Microwave radiometer to retrieve temperature profiles from the surface to the stratopause
... Waters, J. W., Froidevaux, L., Harwood, R. S., Jarnot, R. F., Pick- ett, H. M., Read, W. G., Siegel, P. H., Cofield, R. E., Filipiak, M. J., Flower, D. A., Holden, J. R., Lau, G. K. K., Livesey, N. J., Manney, G. L., ...
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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
... In order to evaluate possible diurnal cycles of LWP over St Petersburg, multiannual data of reanalysis were consid- ered. Two data sets were explored, ERA-Interim and MACC, both of which exploited an assimilation of ...
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