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

Volume

40

Issue

6

fYear

1992

fDate

6/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1090

Lastpage

1100

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.141340

Filename

141340