PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF DIELECTRIC LOSS OF ICE AT 5-40 GHz

• Main Authors: マツオカ, タケシ, フジタ, シュウジ, モリシマ, シゲノリ, マエ, シンジ, MATSUOKA, Takeshi, FUJITA, Shuji, MORISHIMA, Shigenori, MAE, Shinji
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1996
• Subjects: Polar meteorology and glaciology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/3939/files/KJ00000768000.pdf; https://doi.org/10.15094/00003939; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/3939

P(論文) The relative complex dielectric permittivity, ε^*=ε′-iε″, of ice has been measured in the frequency range 5 GHz to 40 GHz and temperature range -80 to -10℃. So far, knowledge about the dielectric loss, tanδ=ε″/ε′, of ice which governs the attenuation of the propagating wave has been unsatisfactory at microwave frequencies. It is important to investigate the dielectric properties of ice for radar remote sensing applications in a polar environment. In this study, the cavity resonator method at 5,10GHz and the open resonator method at 30-40GHz were used. Both methods are suitable for precise measurement of low loss (∿(10)^<-4>) materials. The result suggests that the dielectric loss of ice at microwave frequencies should increase with increasing frequency and increasing temperature. In general, the values of the dielectric loss at microwave frequencies are characterized by the high-frequency tail of the Debye relaxation spectrum with a relaxation frequency in the kHz range and low-frequency tail of the far-infrared absorption band. In this study, the component of the Debye relaxation spectrum is 20% in terms of the value of tanδat 5GHz, -10℃. Then the component of far-infrared absorption band increases with increasing frequency and decreasing temperature. The estimated value of penetration depth in ice, extrapolated to 1 GHz, is 200m at -10℃ and reaches the order of 1000m under -30℃. departmental bulletin paper