Estimation of 3-D water vapor distribution using a network of compact microwave radiometers

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 251-254

  Padmanabhan, S ^a   Reising, S C ^a   Iturbide Sanchez, F ^a   Vivekanandan, J ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Precipitation; Radiometer; Tomography; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

EVOLVING MOISTURE GRADIENTS; WATER VAPOR DISTRIBUTION;

METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADIOMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 66549101295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422777     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. K. A. Emanuel, D. Raymond, A. Betts, L. Bosart, C. Bretherton, K. Droegemeier, B. Farrell, J. M. Fritsoh, R. Houze, M. LeMone, D. Lilly, R. Rotunno, M. Shapiro, R. Smith, and A. Thorpe, "Report of the first prospectus development team of the US weather research program to NOAA and the NSF," Bulletin of the American Meteoriogical Society, 76, 1194-1208, 1995.
2. Hense A., Gerd A., Kottmeier C. S. and Wulfmeyer V., 2003: Quantitative Precipitation Forecast, [www.meteo.unibonn.de/projekte/SPPMeteo/reports/ SPPLeitAntrag__En glish.pdf].
3. D. Cimini, T. J. Hewison, L. Martin, J. Güldner, C. Gaffard and F. S. Marzano, "Temperature and humidity profile retrievals from ground-based microwave radiometers during TUC," Meteor. Z., Vol.15, No.5, 1-12, February 2006.
4. F. Guichard, D. Parsons and E. Miller, "Thermodynamic and radiative impact of the correction of sounding humidity bias in the tropics", Journal of Climate, vol. 13, 3611-3624, Oct. 2000.
5. D. Turner, B. Lesht, A. Clough, J. Liljegren, H. Revercomb, and D. Tobin, "Dry Bias and Variability in Väisälä RS80-H Radiosondes: The ARM Experience," Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, vol. 20, no. 1, pp.117-132, 2003.
6. T. M. Weckwerth, "The effect of small-scale moisture variability on thunderstorm initiation.," Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 4017-4030, 2000.
7. G. Beyerle, T. Schmidt, J. Wickert, S. Heise, M. Rothacher, G. Konig-Langlo, and K. B. Lauritse, "Observational and simulations of receiver-induced refractivity biases in GPS radio occultation," Journal of the Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, 111, D12101, doi 10.1029/2005JD006673, Jun 16.
8. F. Iturbide-Sanchez, S. C. Reising and S. Padmanabhan, "A Miniaturized Spectrometer Radiometer Based on MMIC Technology for Tropospheric Water Vapor Profiling, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, to appear July 2007.
9. L. M. Miloshevich, H. Vömel, D. N. Whiteman, B. M. Lesht, F. J. Schmidlin, and F. Russo, "Absolute accuracy of water vapor measurements from six operational radiosonde types launched during AWEX-G and implications for AIRS validation," Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 111, D09S10, doi:10.1029/2005JD006083, Apr. 2006.
10. C. D. Rodgers, Inverse Methods for Atmospheric Sounding: Theory and Practice, World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd., 2000.
11. T. J. Hewison and C. Gaffard, 2006: ID-VAR Retrieval of Temperature and Humidity Profiles from Ground-based Microwave Radiometers, Proceedings of MicroRad'06, Puerto Rico, pp.235-240
12. M. N. Deeter and K. F. Evans, "Mesoscale variations of water vapor inferred from millimeter-wave imaging radiometer during TOGA COARE," Journal of Applied Meteorology, Notes and Correspondence, vol. 36, 183-188, Feb. 1997.
13. D. H. Lenschow and B. B. Stankov, "Length scales in the convective boundary layer," Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 43, no. 12, 1198-1209, Jun 1986.
14. A. C. Kak and M. Slaney, Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging, IEEE Press, 1988.
15. A. V. Bosisio and G. Drufuca "Retrieval of two-dimensional absorption coefficient structure from a scanning radiometer at 23.8 GHz," Radio Science, vol. 38, no. 3, 8038, doi:10.1029/2002RS002628, 2003.
16. P. W. Rosenkranz, Erratum: "Water vapor microwave continuum absorption: A comparison of measurements and models", Radio Sci., vol. 34, no. 4, p. 1025, Jul. -Aug. 1999.
17. J. C. Liljegren, S.-A. Boukabara, K. Cady-Pereira, and S. A. Clough, "The effect of the half-width of the 22-GHz water vapor line on retrievals of temperature and water vapor profiles with a 12-channel microwave radiometer," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1102-1108, May 2005.
18. F. T. Ulaby, R. K. Moore, and A. K. Fung. Microwave Remote Sensing; Active and Passive, Vol. 1. London: Addison-Wesley, 1981, p. 372.