Information Content Analysis for the Penn State Upper Atmospheric Water Vapor-Microwave Radiometer Experiment.
Abstract
A ground based, microwave radiometer system is being completed at IRL which will be used to measure mesospheric water vapor. The present study addresses itself to the basic radiative transfer of this experiment and to the interaction between the atmosphere and electromagnetic radiation. Using a classical mathematical analysis of the data inversion process an estimation of the true information content of the received data is produced. This process depends critically upon the structure of the weighting functions as was anticipated. The result of this study is that the present radiometer system should have four clearly independent pieces of information per profile, with a fifth piece possible, for realistic estimates of system errors. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA102633
Entities
People
- Jung-jung Tsou
Organizations
- Pennsylvania State University