The Ground-based Scanning Radiometer: A tool for arctic atmospheric research

Author

Westwater, E.R. ; Cimini, D. ; Gasiewski, A.J. ; Klein, M. ; Leuski, V.

Author_Institution

ECE Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

255

Lastpage

258

Abstract

The University of Colorado (CU) Center for Environmental Technology (CET) has developed a Ground- Based Scanning Radiometer (GSR) and deployed it during two important Arctic Experiments relevant to climate research. The first was the Arctic Winter Radiometric Experiment during March-April 2004 and the second was the Radiative Heating in Underexplored Bands Campaign (RHUBC) in February-March 2007. This paper summarizes some of the design details of the instrument and gives new results from both campaigns

Keywords

climatology; oceanographic regions; radiometers; radiometry; AD 2004 03 to 04; AD 2007 02 to 03; Arctic Winter Radiometric Experiment; Arctic atmospheric research; Center for Environmental Technology; GSR; RHUBC; Radiative Heating in Underexplored Bands Campaign; University of Colorado; climate research; ground-based scanning radiometer; Arctic; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Calibration; Clouds; Frequency; Heating; Ice; Instruments; Microwave radiometry; Arctic atmospheric research; Millimete-wave radiometers; water vapor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422778

Filename

4422778