Comparison of microwave radiometer brightness temperature over a hot reference area

Author

Tran, N. ; Obligis, E. ; Eymard, L. ; Ruf, C.

Author_Institution

CLS/DOS, Ramonville St-Agne, France

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

1074

Abstract

Nadir-looking microwave radiometers are flown on different altimeter missions to correct the altimeter range for water vapor and cloud liquid water path delay in troposphere. Actually four sensors, TOPEX, JASON-1, ERS-2, and ENVISAT microwave radiometers (MWR) provide continuous measurement and the aim of this paper is to compare their measured brightness temperatures over the same hot reference continental area.

Keywords

atmospheric humidity; atmospheric precipitation; atmospheric techniques; atmospheric temperature; radiometers; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; ENVISAT; ERS-2; JASON-1; MWR; TOPEX; altimeter missions; cloud liquid water path delay; hot reference area; hot reference continental area; microwave radiometer brightness temperature; nadir-looking microwave radiometers; troposphere; water vapor; Area measurement; Brightness temperature; Clouds; Delay; Microwave measurements; Microwave radiometry; Microwave sensors; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Terrestrial atmosphere;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294015

Filename

1294015