Quality assessment of the first measurements of tropospheric water vapor and temperature by the HAMSTRAD radiometer over concordia station, antarctica

• Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• Main Author: Pellegrini, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarctica; atmospheric measurement; least squares method; humidity measurement; temperature measurement; microwave radiometry; microwave measurement; time series analysis; Concordia Station; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12079/814; https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2012.2225627; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84878121679&partnerID=40&md5=0cea83c395dbd1591efbf4200de81616

The HAMSTRAD microwave instrument operates at 60 and 183 GHz and measures temperature and water vapor, respectively, from 0-to 10-km altitude with a time resolution of 7 min. The radiometer has been successfully deployed at Dome C (Concordia Station), Antarctica (75°06′S, 123°21′E, 3233 m amsl) duri...