Published 1993 | Version v1
Book

Critical technologies for atmospheric composition measurements by microwave limb sounding

  • 1. Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Description

Limb sounding radiometers determine the concentrations of atmospheric constituents by measuring thermal emission from the atmospheric limb along a tangent path. A number of critical technologies needed to build a microwave limb sounding radiometer are identified. Design for all these components exist, but further development would improve performance at frequencies of a few hundred gigahertz and above. The most critical item is the mixer

Part of:
Progress in development of high power gyrotrons

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Imprint Place
Bellingham, WA (United States)
ISBN
0-8194-1392-5
Imprint Title
Eighteenth international conference on infrared and millimeter waves
Imprint Pagination
714 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 10-12.

Conference

Title
18. annual international conference on infrared and millimeter waves.
Dates
6-10 Sep 1993.
Place
Colchester (United Kingdom).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
25033576
Subject category
S58: GEOSCIENCES; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DESIGN; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; RADIOMETERS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
Descriptors DEC
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-9309124--.