Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2010, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 72-78
Algorithm of retrieving the vertical distribution of the atmosphere
temperature and humidity and some results of its use for the tropical
cyclone Katrina as the example
A.G. Grankov
, A.A. Mil`shin
, Je.P. Novichikhin
, N.K. Shelobanova
Fryazino branch of the Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics RAS, 141190 Fryazino Moscow Region,1, ac.Vvedenskii Sq
Algorithm of retrieving the vertical distribution of the atmosphere temperature and humidity has been elaborated. It
is based on comparison of the brightness temperature of the system ocean surface-atmosphere measured by satellite
radiometer SSM/I at microwaves in the millimeter and centimeter wavelength ranges and its simulated estimates
derived from direct meteorological measurements in the near-surface atmosphere and an assumption on exponentially
vanishing with a height the air temperature and humidity. The algorithm was approved with the data of powerful
tropical cyclone KATRINA in the Florida Strait in August 2005.
Keywords: satellite passive microwave radiometric method, (radio)brightness temperature, buoy station, system "ocean surface-atmosphere", tropical cyclone
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