Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/MICRORAD.2010.5559570
