Instrument description of the airborne microwave temperature profiler

The microwave temperature profiler (MTP) is a passive microwave radiometer installed in the NASA ER-2 aircraft and used to measure profiles of air temperature versus altitude. It operates at 57.3 and 58.8 GHz, where oxygen molecules emit thermal radiation. Brightness temperature is measured at a sel...

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Main Authors: Denning, Richard F., Guidero, Steven L., Parks, Gary S., Gary, Bruce L.
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Published: 1989
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spelling ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:19900031895 2023-05-15T14:04:33+02:00 Instrument description of the airborne microwave temperature profiler Denning, Richard F. Guidero, Steven L. Parks, Gary S. Gary, Bruce L. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available Nov 30, 1989 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19900031895 unknown http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19900031895 Accession ID: 90A18950 Copyright Other Sources 35 Journal of Geophysical Research; 94; 16757-16 1989 ftnasantrs 2012-02-15T18:24:27Z The microwave temperature profiler (MTP) is a passive microwave radiometer installed in the NASA ER-2 aircraft and used to measure profiles of air temperature versus altitude. It operates at 57.3 and 58.8 GHz, where oxygen molecules emit thermal radiation. Brightness temperature is measured at a selection of viewing elevation angles every 14 s. MTP was the only remote sensing experiment aboard the ER-2 during the Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment. This paper describes hardware, calibration, and performance aspects of the MTP. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctic NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Antarctic
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Guidero, Steven L.
Parks, Gary S.
Gary, Bruce L.
Instrument description of the airborne microwave temperature profiler
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description The microwave temperature profiler (MTP) is a passive microwave radiometer installed in the NASA ER-2 aircraft and used to measure profiles of air temperature versus altitude. It operates at 57.3 and 58.8 GHz, where oxygen molecules emit thermal radiation. Brightness temperature is measured at a selection of viewing elevation angles every 14 s. MTP was the only remote sensing experiment aboard the ER-2 during the Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment. This paper describes hardware, calibration, and performance aspects of the MTP.
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author Denning, Richard F.
Guidero, Steven L.
Parks, Gary S.
Gary, Bruce L.
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Guidero, Steven L.
Parks, Gary S.
Gary, Bruce L.
author_sort Denning, Richard F.
title Instrument description of the airborne microwave temperature profiler
title_short Instrument description of the airborne microwave temperature profiler
title_full Instrument description of the airborne microwave temperature profiler
title_fullStr Instrument description of the airborne microwave temperature profiler
title_full_unstemmed Instrument description of the airborne microwave temperature profiler
title_sort instrument description of the airborne microwave temperature profiler
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