Designing a Climate-Monitoring Microwave Radiometer
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Designing a Climate-Monitoring Microwave Radiometer
- Author:
P. W. Rosenkranz, W. J. Blackwell, A. J. Gasiewski, R. V. Leslie, C. A. Mears , J. R. Piepmeier , P. E. Racette , and B. D. Santer
The Climate-Monitoring Microwave Radiometer (CliMMR) will address the requirements for measuring long-term trends in atmospheric temperature with excellent stability and linearity, and very low antenna sidelobe contributions. CliMMR would also serve as an on-orbit calibration standard for weathersatellite instruments. Small satellites in carefully chosen non-sunsynchronous orbits could compile a diurnal-cycle climatology of temperature, to reduce uncertainties in the past satellite temperature record.
