The principle and system design of a multi-channel atmospheric microwave sounder

Author

Yu, Zhang ; Shengwei, Zhang ; Jieying, He ; Yingzhu, Huang ; Fenglin, Sun

Author_Institution

Nat. Microwave Remote Sensing Lab., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

28-31 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

389

Lastpage

392

Abstract

The ground-based atmospheric microwave sounder is introduced. It is a multi-channel passive radiometer operating at K-band and V-band. By receiving and analyzing the earth´s generated and reflected radiation at the two frequencies, the instrument will measured the vertical distribution of atmospheric temperature and humidity. The principle of microwave sounding is presented and the detailed system design of the multi-channel atmospheric microwave sounder is also described in the paper.

Keywords

atmospheric humidity; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric temperature; microwave measurement; radiometers; radiometry; Earth radiation; K-band; V-band; atmospheric humidity; atmospheric temperature; ground-based atmospheric microwave sounder; microwave sounding; multichannel atmospheric microwave sounder; multichannel passive radiometer; system design; Atmospheric measurements; Calibration; Microwave measurements; Microwave radiometry; Microwave theory and techniques; Sensitivity; Temperature measurement; calibration; microwave sounder; multi-channel; radiometer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IITA-GRS), 2010 Second IITA International Conference on

Conference_Location

Qingdao

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8514-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IITA-GRS.2010.5603279

Filename

5603279