Title :
The Millimeter Wave Atmospheric Sounder (MAS): a shuttle-based remote sensing experiment
Author :
Croskey, Charles L. ; Kämpfer, Niklaus ; Belivacqua, Richard M. ; Hartmann, Gerd Karlheinz ; Kunzi, Klaus F. ; Schwartz, Philip R. ; Olivero, John J. ; Puliafito, Salvador Enrique ; Aellig, Christopher ; Umlauft, Gerhard ; Waltman, William B. ; Degenhardt
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
fDate :
6/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Millimeter Wave Atmospheric Sounder (MAS) will be launched in the spring of 1992 as part of the ATLAS 1 (Atmospheric Laboratory for Application and Science) mission. Using passive limb-scanning millimeter-wave radiometry, it will sense the thermal emission produced by ozone at 184 GHz, water vapor at 183 GHz, chlorine monoxide at 204 GHz, and oxygen (for retrieval of temperature and pressure) at 60 GHz. From these observations, concentration profiles of these gases throughout the middle atmosphere will be made. The fundamentals of the measurements, the design of the radiometers, and the approaches used for the data analysis are described
Keywords :
air pollution detection and control; atmospheric composition; atmospheric pressure and density; atmospheric techniques; atmospheric temperature; mesosphere; microwave measurement; pressure measurement; radiometry; remote sensing; stratosphere; temperature measurement; 60 to 204 GHz; ATLAS 1; Atmospheric Laboratory for Application and Science; ClO; H2O; Millimeter Wave Atmospheric Sounder; O2; O3; air pollution; chemical composition; gas concentration profiles; mesosphere; middle atmosphere; mm wave; passive limb-scanning millimeter-wave radiometry; pressure measurement; radiometer design; remote sensing experiment; shuttle-based; stratosphere; temperature measurement; thermal emission; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric waves; Data analysis; Gases; Laboratories; Radiometers; Radiometry; Springs; Temperature sensors;
Journal_Title :
Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on
