Sentences with phrase «microwave radiometer measurements»

Matrosov S. Y. and D. D. Turner (March 2018): Retrieving mean temperature of atmospheric liquid water layers using microwave radiometer measurements.

«Along with the microwave radiometer measurements, which have also shown surprises in the deep atmosphere, these results demonstrate that if we want to understand giant planets, we will need to study all of Jupiter,» Levin says.

Not exact matches

In contrast, the Scripps team opted to directly correlate albedo measurements made by NASA's CERES instrument data with observations of sea ice extent made by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM / I) radiometers aboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites.

Motivated primarily by Mitchum's conclusion, Keihm et al., 2000 (Abstract; Google Scholar access) actively tried to come up with something that could cause a «drift» in the satellites, and eventually decided that a temporary problem in the «TOPEX Microwave Radiometer path delay measurements», which stopped in December 1996 could do that.

The Microwave Radiometer - High Frequency (MWRHF) provides time - series measurements of brightness temperatures from two channels centered at 90 and 150 GHz.

Microwave radiometers are a passive measurement technique; that is, they monitor Earth's own heat energy emissions in the 1 - to 200 - gigahertz frequency range.

For practical purposes, SSTsubskin can be well approximated to the measurement of surface temperature by a microwave radiometer operating in the 6 - 11 GHz frequency range, but the relationship is neither direct nor invariant to changing physical conditions or to the specific geometry of the microwave measurements.

The animation was made with measurements taken by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer — EOS (AMSR - E) on NASA's Aqua satellite between March 7 and September 9.

The Microwave Radiometer (MWR) provides time - series measurements of column - integrated amounts of water vapor and liquid water.

In the original configuration of NPOESS, the ocean surface vector wind data record established by QuikSCAT was to be replaced by passive microwave measurements of wind speed and direction by the polarimetric CMIS radiometer.

With MIS delayed until NPOESS C2, there is a need to continue the long (28 - year) climate data record of sea ice extent and concentration collected by passive microwave radiometers; continued scatterometer and altimeter measurements are also required.