Investigation of remote sensing possibilities of the lower atmosphere in the microwave range and some aspects of statistical data use

Abstract

An integral relation has been obtained between variations of the brightness temperature for ground-based microwave radiometry and meteorological parameters of the atmosphere which permits a general approach to the statement of inverse problems of thermal and humidity sensing in the microwave range

Statistical estimations of accuracy for recovering low-altitude temperature and humidity profiles are given. Using the example of ammonia pollution of the atmosphere (over its radiation in the region of the inverse resonance λ ∼ 1.25cm) possibilities are illustrated of remote-sensing methods for the definition of constituents of an industrial origin

Problems are considered for the use of remote-sensing data in real-time monitoring of the astronomical refraction and the electrical path length of the atmosphere in the radio range.