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2013-06-10
Development and Calibration of a k -Band Ground-Based Hyperspectral Microwave Radiometer for Water Vapor Measurements
By
Yan Xie,

    Dr. Yan Xie

    School of Electronic and Information Engieering

    Beihang University

    China

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Jingxiong Chen,

    Dr. Jingxiong Chen

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering

    Beihang University

    China

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Dawei Liu,

    Dr. Dawei Liu

    The Electromagnetics Academy at Zhejiang University

    Zhejiang University

    China

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Changchun Lv,

    Dr. Changchun Lv

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering

    Beihang University

    China

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Kai Liu,

    Dr. Kai Liu

    The School of Electronic and Information Engineering

    Beihang University

    China

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Jungang Miao

    Dr. Jungang Miao

    School of Electronics and Information Engineering

    Beihang University

    China

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Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 140, 415-438, 2013
doi:10.2528/PIER13050704
Abstract
In this paper, a K-band ground-based hyperspectral microwave radiometer for atmospheric sounding is proposed, which improves the profile error and vertical resolution of moisture profiling under the high water vapor condition. The hyperspectral microwave radiometer (80 K-band spectral channels) can observe the rapidly changing weather with high sensitivity and accuracy of brightness temperature by using a stable high-speed receiver and an improved tipping calibration method. By combining several advantages of traditional microwave receiver, the MMIC receiver has good ultra-wideband performance, high linearity, and short measuring time. Moreover, through correcting the calibration parameters of traditional tipping calibration, the proposed calibration method can increase calibration accuracy based on the radiative transfer equation in the atmosphere. Measurement results demonstrate that the radiometer achieves a sensitivity of 0.1 K for 2 s of integration time and an accuracy of better than 0.77 K. For the water vapor profile, the variational retrievals method is used to extract the redundant information under the microwave hyperspectral condition. Preliminary comparisons of measured water vapor profiles with traditional results show good improvement of the profile error and vertical resolution.
Citation
Yan Xie, Jingxiong Chen, Dawei Liu, Changchun Lv, Kai Liu, and Jungang Miao, "Development and Calibration of a k -Band Ground-Based Hyperspectral Microwave Radiometer for Water Vapor Measurements," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 140, 415-438, 2013.
doi:10.2528/PIER13050704
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