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Results are presented of the restoration of vertical humidity profiles from terrestrial thermal-radar measurements of atmospheric absorption above the continent and the ocean at a series of wavelengths λ near the rotational resonance of H2O molecules centered to λ=1.35 cm. The restoration of the humidity profiles in this work was accomplished by the method of statistical regularization. The effect of additional physical information and various a priori data on the accuracy of the solution of the problem is discussed. The prospects of restoring a broad class of humidity profiles according to radiometric data are noted.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 510–516, April, 1972.
The authors are indebted to M. S. Malkevich and A. S. Gurvich for their constant interest in the work and discussion of the results obtained, and likewise to I. A. Gorchakova for the matrix which he kindly provided for our work.
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Ershov, A.T., Naumov, A.P. & Plechkov, V.M. Determination of the vertical humidity profile from terrestrial thermal-radar measurements of atmospheric absorption. Radiophys Quantum Electron 15, 383–388 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02210725
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