Middle-atmospheric water vapour profiles above the Zugspitze obtained with a new ground-based 22 GHz spectroradiometer

Author

Golchert, Sven H W ; Hochschild, Gerd ; Gross, James

Author_Institution

Inst. for Meteorol. & Climate Res., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

1-4 March 2010

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

154

Abstract

The authors present first results from the new MIRA 5 microwave spectroradiometer for middle-atmospheric observations of water vapour at 22 GHz. The data have been taken at Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus, Zugspitze, Germany (47°N, 11°E, 2650 m a.s.l.) in January 2009. Comparison with Aura/MLS yields good agreement in the lower and middle stratosphere and some systematic deviation at higher altitudes, which is attributed to a simplified retrieval set-up used in this study.

Keywords

atmospheric humidity; radiometry; remote sensing; AD 2009 01; Aura observation comparison; Germany; MLS observation comparison; Zugspitze; frequency 22 GHz; ground-based spectroradiometer; microwave spectroradiometer; middle-atmospheric water vapour profiles; remote sensing; sudden stratospheric warming; Calibration; Electromagnetic heating; Instruments; Kernel; Meteorology; Microwave theory and techniques; Water; mid-latitudes; middle atmosphere; remote sensing; sudden stratospheric warming; water vapour;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment (MicroRad), 2010 11th Specialist Meeting on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8120-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8121-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MICRORAD.2010.5559570

Filename

5559570