Intercomparison of integrated water vapour measurements

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-64

  Martin, Lorenz ^a   Mätzler, Christian ^a   Hewison, Tim J ^b   Ruffieux, Dominique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOSONDES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLOUD; GPS; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WATER VAPOR;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PAYERNE; SWITZERLAND; VAUD;

EID: 33646021306     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0098     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Bevis, M., S. Businger, T. A. Herring, C. Rocken, R. A. Anthes, R. H. Ware, 1992: GPS Meteorology: Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor Using the Global Positioning System. - J. Geophys. Res. 97(D14), 15787-15801.
2. Cimini, D., T. J. Hewison, L. Martin, J. Güldner, C. Gaffard, F. S. Marzano, 2006: Temperature and humidity profile retrievals from ground-based microwave radiometers during TUC. - Meteorol. Z. 15, 45-56.
3. Elgered, G., B. O. Rönnäng, J. I. H. Askne, 1982: Measurements of atmospheric water vapor with microwave radiometry. - Radio Sci. 1(5), 1258-1264.
4. Emardson, T. R., G. Elgered, J. M. Johanson, 1998: Three months of continuous monitoring of atmospheric water vapor with a network of Global Positioning System receivers. - J. Geophys. Res. 103(D2), 1807-1820.
5. Fujiwara, M., M. Shiotani, F. Hasebe, H. Vömel, S. J. Oltmans, P. W. Ruppert, T. Horinouchi, T. Tsuda, 2003: Performance of the Meteolabor "Snow White" Chilled-Mirror Hygrometer in the Tropical Troposphere: Comparisons with the Vaisala RS80 A/H-Humicap Sensors. - J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol. 20(11), 1534-1542.
6. Guerova, G., J.-M. Bettems, E. Brockmann, Ch. Mätzler, 2006: Assimilation of COST 716 Near-Real Time GPS data in the nonhydrostatic limited area model used at MeteoSwiss. - Meteor. Atmos. Phys. 91, 149-164.
7. Kneizys, F. X., L. W. Abreu, G. P. Anderson, J. H. Chetwynd, E. P. Shettle, A. Berk, L. S. Bernstein, D. C. Robertson, P. Acharya, L. S. Rothman, J. E. A. Selby, W. O. Gallery, S. A. Clough, 1996: The MODTRAN 2/3 Report and LOWTRAN 7 Model. - Tech. rep., Ontar Corporation, 9 Village Way, North Andover, MA 01845, U.S.A.
8. Kopken, C., 2001: Validation of integrated water vapor from numerical models using ground-based GPS, SSM/I, and water vapor radiometer measurements. - J. Appl. Meteor. 40(6), 1105-1117.
9. Liou, Y.-A., Y.-T. Teng, T. V. Hove, J. C. Liljegren, 2001: Comparison of Precipitable Water Observations in the Near Tropics by GPS, Microwave Radiometer, and Radiosondes. - J. Appl. Meteor. 40, 5-15.
10. Martin, L., 2003: Microwave Transmission and Emission Measurements for Tropospheric Monitoring. - Inauguraldissertation der Philosophischnaturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Institut für Angewandte Physik Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
11. Martin, L., M. Schneebeli, C. Mätzler, 2006a: ASMUWARA, a ground-based radiometer system for tropospheric monitoring. - Meteorol. Z. 15, 11-17.
12. Martin, L., M. Schneebeli, C. Mätzler, 2006b: Tropospheric water and temperature retrieval for ASMUWARA. - Meteorol. Z. 15, 37-44.
13. Niell, A. E., 1996: Global mapping functions for the atmosphere delay at radio wavelengths. - J. Geophys. Res. 101(B2), 3227-3246.
14. Revercomb, H. E., D. D. Turner, D. C. Tobin, R. O. Knuteson, W. F. Feltz, J. Barnard, J. Bösenberg, S. Clough, D. Cook, R. Ferrare, J. Goldsmith, S. Gutman, R. Halthore, B. Lesht, J. Liljegren, H. Linné, J. Michalsky, V. Morris, W. Porch, S. Richardson, B. Schmid, M. Splitt, T. V. Hove, E. Westwater, D. Whiteman, 2003: The ARM Program's Water Vapor Intensive Observation Periods. - Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc. 84(2), 217-236.
15. Richner, H. (Ed.), 1999: Grundlagen aerologischer Messungen speziell mittels der Schweizer Sonde SRS 400. - Veröffentlichungen der SMA-MeteoSchweiz, No. 61, SMA-Meteo Schweiz.
16. Ruffieux, D., J. Nash, P. Jeannet, J. L. Agnew, 2006: The COST 720 temperature, humidity, and cloud profiling campaign: TUC. - Meteorol. Z. 15, 5-10.
17. Tregoning, P., R. Boers, D. O'Brien, M. Hendy, 1998: Accuracy of absolute precipitable water vapor estimates from GPS observations. - J. Geophys. Res. 103(D22), 28701-28710.
18. Vömel, H., M. Fujiwara, M. Shiotani, F. Hasebe, S. J. Oltmans, J. E. Barnes, 2003: The Behavior of the Snow White Chilled-Mirror Hygrometer in Extremely Dry Conditions. - J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol. 20(11), 1560-1567.
19. Wang, J., L. Zhang, A. Dai, 2005: Global estimates of water-vapor-weighted mean temperature of the atmosphere for GPS applications. - J. Geophys. Res. 110, doi:10.1029/2005JD006215.
20. Ware, R., R. Carpenter, J. Güldner, J. Liljegren, T. Nehrkorn, F. Solheim, F. Vandenberghe, 2003: A multichannel radiometric profiler of temperature, humidity, and cloud liquid. - Radio Sci. 38(4), 44.1-44.13.