Paper Info
Title
Numerical sensitivity analysis of passive EHF and SMMW channels to tropospheric water vapor, clouds, and precipitation
Abstract
Potential uses of specific extremely high frequency (EHF) and submillimeter-wave (SMMW) channels at 90, 166, 283, 220, 325, 340, and 410 GHz for passive spaceborne remote sensing of the troposphere and lower stratosphere are investigated using an iterative numerical radiative transfer model. Collectively, these channels offer potential for high spatial resolution imaging using diffraction-limited apertures of practical size, along with the ability to profile water vapor, map precipitation beneath optically opaque cloud cover, and to measure nonprecipitating cloud (e.g. cirrus) parameters. A passive airborne imaging instrument for tropospheric meteorological sensing at 90, 150, 183±1, 3, 7, 220, and 325±1, 3, 9 GHz, called the Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (MIR), is described
Year
DOI
Venue
1992
10.1109/36.175320
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
atmospheric humidity,atmospheric measuring apparatus,atmospheric precipitation,atmospheric radiation,atmospheric techniques,clouds,radiometers,remote sensing,stratosphere,troposphere,90 to 410 GHz,EHF,MIR,Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer,THF,clouds,diffraction-limited apertures,high spatial resolution imaging,humidity,iterative numerical radiative transfer model,lower stratosphere,passive spaceborne remote sensing,precipitation,troposphere,water vapor
Stratosphere,Meteorology,Cirrus,Remote sensing,Troposphere,Atmospheric radiative transfer codes,Cloud cover,Water vapor,Mathematics,Radiometer,Microwave radiometer
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
30
5
0196-2892
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
6.32
0
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gasiewski, A.J.17036.10