Groundbased Scanning Radiometer Measurements during the Water Vapor IOP 2004: a valuable new data set for the study of the Arctic atmosphere

• Main Authors: D. Cimini, M. Klein, E. R. Westwater, V. Leuski, A. J. Gasiewski, S. Dowlatshahi
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Clough
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.644.9579; http://www.arm.gov/publications/proceedings/conf15/extended_abs/cimini_d.pdf

The importance of accurate measurements of column amounts of water vapor and cloud liquid has been well documented (Clough et al. 1999). Although several technologies have been investigated to measure these column amounts, microwave radiometers (MWRs) have been used operationally by the