Pressure profiles of the middle atmosphere retrieved from Millimeter-Wave Atmospheric Sounder (MAS) onboard the space shuttle mission ATLAS-1

Author

Langen, J. ; Berg, A. ; Dicken, H.-D. ; Wehr, T. ; Degenhardt, W. ; Kaempfer, N. ; Bevilacqua, R.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Remote Sensing, Bremen Univ., Germany

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

8-12 Aug 1994

Firstpage

1335

Abstract

MAS oxygen spectra are used to determine temperature-pressure profiles and pressure at tangent points. All known instrumental characteristics are included into the forward model. Tangent pressure is obtained using a latitude dependent brightness temperature table, with optimum results in the upper stratosphere. For the full temperature profile inversion, the optimal estimation method as proposed by Rodgers is used

Keywords

atmospheric pressure; atmospheric techniques; atmospheric temperature; meteorology; remote sensing; stratosphere; 60 to 300 GHz; EHF; MAS; Millimeter-Wave Atmospheric Sounder; O₂; estimation method; forward model; inversion; latitude dependent brightness temperature table; measurement technique; middle atmosphere; millimetric; mm wave; pressure profile; remote sensing; space shuttle mission ATLAS-1; spectra; stratosphere; tangent point; temperature; vertical structure; Absorption; Atmospheric modeling; Brightness temperature; Frequency; Instruments; Millimeter wave technology; Physics; Radiometry; Space shuttles; Terrestrial atmosphere;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1994. IGARSS '94. Surface and Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Technologies, Data Analysis and Interpretation., International

Conference_Location

Pasadena, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1497-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1994.399432

Filename

399432