National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Microwave Temperature Profiler
instrumentairborne instrumentIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- NCAR
Description
MTP, a wing-mounted scanning microwave radiometer that measures oxygen thermal emission at 56–59 GHz at 10 viewing angles to retrieve temperature profiles above, below and at flight level, with in-flight reference-target calibration; statistical retrieval errors are typically 0.2–1 K.
Official page
https://www.eol.ucar.edu/node/181
Open official page (opens in a new tab)Contact
- Contact
- Julie Haggerty | Boon Lim, JPL
Details
- Keywords
- brightness temperature, temperature profile retrieval, scan mirror, heated reference target, jpl design, dropsonde comparisons
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- Key spec
- 56–59 GHz oxygen emission; 10 viewing angles; 1 scan every 17 s
- Equipment class
- Scanning microwave radiometer
- Associated entity
- NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory (site)
- Identifier
- MTP
- Specifications
- Uncertainty in the final temperature retrievals varies with distance from flight level. Various sources contribute to the error, including sidelobe interference and errors in the s…