Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics

, Volume 42, Issue 1, pp 39–51 | Cite as

Ground-based microwave thermal sounding of the atmosphere

  • A. P. Naumov
  • N. N. Osharina
  • A. V. Troitsky
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Abstract

We apply the tensor transfer equation for downward radio emission in a weakly anisotropic medium and a generalized analysis of the generation conditions for such radiation to develope a unified approach to the solution of the problem on reconstruction of the atmospheric temperature prifile over a wide altitude range (from theoustasche layer to the mesosphere) using ground-based measurements of thermal radio emission. Radio emission in the oxygen spin—rotational band centered at the wavelength 5 mm was measured with radiometer equipment of various spectral resolutions. The capabilities of the remote sounding are illustrated by the results of the temperature profile reconstruction in theoustasche layer and troposphere using the radiometric measurements of the atmospheric radio emission, as well as by the results of numerical simulations of the radiometric experiment for the upper layers of the atmosphere. Trends in development of ground-based remote sounding of the temperature are discussed.

Keywords

Brightness Temperature Radio Emission Tropospheric Temperature Radiometric Measurement Tikhonov Method 
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  • A. P. Naumov
  • N. N. Osharina
  • A. V. Troitsky

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