Radiometrics MP 3000 Microwave Radiometer Performance Assessment

Combining UHF radar wind profiler and microwave radiometer for the estimation of atmospheric humidity profiles

Capabilities of an integrated ground-based system for the operational measurement of humidity profiles, using both an UHF wind profiler and a radiometer, are discussed. The combination takes advantage of the complementary characteristics of each instrument. The radiometer is able to give a fair evaluation of smoothed humidity and temperature profiles, while the wind profiler is more suited for ...

Validating clear air absorption models using ground-based microwave radiometers and vice-versa

Microwave radiometer observations are compared with various radiative transfer model calculations based on simultaneous radiosondes. This analysis uses observations from Payerne, Switzerland, in cloud free conditions during the Temperature Humidity and Cloud (TUC) experiment in winter 2003/04. The results show a systematic bias in the brightness temperatures measured by the Radiometrics profile...

Radiometrics Corporation: Microwave Radiometry for the Environmental Sciences

Passive ground-based remote sensing of atmospheric temperature, water vapor, and cloud liquid water profiles by a frequency synthesized microwave radiometer

Summar . An advanced microwave radiometer for profiling atmospheric parameters is described in this paper. The method accomplishing profiling is described. The innovations of the radiometer system, including utilization of a stable frequency synthesizer and the calibration system are described. The performance of several mathematical retrieval methods and representative profiles are presented, ...

Radiometer Testbed Development for SWOT

Conventional altimeters include nadir looking colocated 18-37 GHz microwave radiometer to measure wet tropospheric path delay. These have reduced accuracy in coastal zone (within ~50 km from land) and do not provide wet path delay over land. The addition of high frequency channels to Jason-class radiometer will improve retrievals in coastal regions and enable retrievals over land. High-frequenc...