DocumentCode :
340091
Title :
Measurements of atmospheric extinction using combined airborne and ground-based 95 GHz radar observations
Author :
Sekelsky, Stephen M. ; Li, Lihua ; Sadowy, Gregory A. ; Durden, Steven L. ; Dindardo, Steven J. ; Li, Fuk K. ; Huffman, Arlie ; Stephens, Graeme ; Babb, David M. ; Rosenberger, Hans W. ; Ackerman, Thomas P.
Author_Institution :
Microwave Remote Sensing Lab., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA
Volume :
1
fYear :
1999
fDate :
1999
Firstpage :
461
Abstract :
During the boreal summer of 1998 three 95-GHz (W-band) radars were deployed by the University of Massachusetts (UMass), the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and NASA´s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Ground-based systems from UMass and Penn State were located at the the U.S. Department of Energy´s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program field site in northern Oklahoma. (The UMass system was later deployed in New Iberia, Louisiana.) The third 95-GHz radar, jointly developed by UMass and NASA/JPL, was mounted in a nadir-pointing orientation on the NASA DC-8 research aircraft. The experiment serves several purposes. First, it provides an opportunity to intercompare the calibrations of active research radars that are adding to the scientific archives of W-band radar observations. Second, simultaneous airborne and ground-based measurements are combined to measure precipitation attenuation
Keywords :
airborne radar; atmospheric precipitation; clouds; meteorological radar; remote sensing by radar; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 95 GHz; AD 1998; Airborne Cloud Radar; Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program field site; Cloud Profiling Radar System; EHF; Louisiana; NASA DC-8 research aircraft; New Iberia; USA; W-band radar observations; active research radars; airborne radar observations; atmospheric extinction measurements; calibration; ground-based radar observations; mm; nadir-pointing orientation; northern Oklahoma; precipitation attenuation; Airborne radar; Aircraft; Atmospheric measurements; Attenuation measurement; Calibration; Energy measurement; Laboratories; NASA; Propulsion; Radar measurements;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.773533
Filename :
773533
Link To Document :
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