Title :
Fluctuations of microwave emission of the atmosphere at millimeter wavelengths
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Radio Eng. & Electron., Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia
Abstract :
Spatial and temporal fluctuations of atmospheric emission at the millimeter wavelengths are caused by pulsations of the meteorological parameters such as thermodynamic temperature, liquid water content in clouds, humidity, phase structure and wind speed etc. These pulsations result from the turbulence in the troposphere. For a description of the fluctuating fields of temperature, density, humidity and, depending on them, the brightness temperature of the atmosphere, the authors use the so-called structural function
Keywords :
atmospheric humidity; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric temperature; atmospheric thermodynamics; atmospheric turbulence; clouds; wind; atmospheric emission; clouds; humidity; liquid water content; meteorological parameter pulsations; microwave emission fluctuations; millimeter wavelengths; phase structure; spatial fluctuations; temporal fluctuations; thermodynamic temperature; tropospheric turbulence; wind speed; Atmospheric waves; Brightness temperature; Clouds; Fluctuations; Humidity; Meteorology; Temperature dependence; Terrestrial atmosphere; Thermodynamics; Wind speed;
Conference_Titel :
Physics and Engineering of Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Waves, 2001. The Fourth International Kharkov Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kharkov
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6473-2
DOI :
10.1109/MSMW.2001.946756
