大气微波辐射起伏及其遥感

本文讨论了大气微波辐射起伏的机制。推导出利用大气氧气微波辐射起伏统计特征,探测大气温度结构常数分布与风分布的遥感方程。对遥感方程核函数的基本性质进行了讨论。     

Passive microwave and infrared structure of mesoscale convective systems

Summary The precipitation structure of mature Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS) is examined in both the midlatitudes and the tropics using SSM/I microwave measurements, geostationary satellite observations, and ground-based radar observations. Discussion includes qualitative comparisons between midlatitude and tropical MCS cases, with particular emphasis on the delineation of convective and stratiform regions and the characterization of microwave polarization difference temperatures in the MCSs. Implications are given regarding the importance of the vertical precipitation structure on top of the atmosphere (TOA) microwave temperatures and for rain retrieval algorithms using measurements from space.Some of the principle findings include the ability of passive microwave brightness temperature measurements to distinguish stratiform and convective regions of MCSs for both tropical and midlatitude cases and over land and ocean backgrounds. Convective regions typically had low differences between the vertical and horizontal brightness temperatures while the stratiform regions have larger differences, and these differences are likely related to the spatial microphysical variations in the upper levels of the precipitation region. Several cases were found in midlatitudes and one case in the tropics where the lowest infrared (IR) brightness temperatures were displaced into the anvil region and were not colocated with the coldest microwave temperatures. Life cycle dependence of the displacement is suggested, but the SSM/I measurements with a maximum of twice daily coverage over the same location were inadequate to answer this question.With 10 Figures     

Measurement of ocean temperature and salinity via microwave radiometry

Sea-surface temperature with an accuracy of 1 °C and salinity with an accuracy of 1 were measured with a 1.43 and 2.65 GHz radiometer system after correcting for the influence of cosmic radiation, intervening atmosphere, sea-surface roughness, and antenna beamwidth. The radiometers are a third-generation system using null-balancing and feed-back noise injection. Flight measurements from aircraft over bay regions and coastal areas of the Atlantic resulted in contour maps with spatial resolution of 0.5 km.     

微波输能技术的研究进展及发展趋势分析

微波输能技术（MPT）是实现远距离能量无线传输的主要方式之一,也是空间太阳能电站系统的核心技术之一.本文主要介绍了微波输能技术的国内外研究现状,并对微波输能技术的系统组成与关键技术做了分析,其中主要针对微波发射子系统与微波接收子系统两大模块进行了详细的讨论.最后,对微波输能系统技术所存在的问题以及未来发展的趋势进行了概括.     

车载微波辐射计移动大气走航观测实验及初步应用

地基多通道微波辐射计能够实现大气温湿度廓线参数的实时观测与反演，在大气探测中已经得到了广泛的应用。但是，受到观测方式和数据反演算法的限制，目前主要应用于地面固定站点上空的大气参数遥感探测，无法实现大气参数的移动观测。因此，尝试将自主研制的地基多通道微波辐射计进行改进并安装在车载平台上，对车载微波辐射计移动大气观测可行性进行了验证。实验结果表明车载微波辐射计移动观测是可行的。此外，利用车载移动走航观测数据，对西安城市热岛效应和对流有效位能（CAPE）进行了分析。结果显示，移动走航观测能够用于观测城市热岛效应，西安中心区域比郊区温度高出约1.0℃左右，城市中心的大气对流有效位能也比郊区高出1000～2000J/kg。通过这次实验为微波辐射计的车载移动观测和应用进一步奠定了基础。     

Mapping surface soil moisture with microwave radiometers

Summary Water stored in the soil serves as a reservoir for the evapotranspiration (ET) process on land surfaces, therefore knowledge of the soil moisture content is important for partitioning the incoming solar radiation into latent and sensible heat components. There is no remote sensing technique which directly observes the amount of water in this reservoir, however microwave remote sensing at long wavelengths (>10 cm) can give estimates of the moisture stored in the surface 5-cm layer of the soil. This approach is based on the large dielectric contrast between water and dry soil, resulting in emissivity changes from 0.96 for a dry smooth soil to less than 0.6.In this paper, basic relationships between soil moisture and emissivity are described using both theory and observations from various platforms. The ability of the approach to be extended to large regions has been demonstrated in several aircraft mapping experiments, e.g., FIFE, Monsoon 90, Washita 92 and HAPEX Sahel. Some results from Monsoon 90 are presented here. Applications of these soil moisture maps in runoff prediction, rainfall estimation, determining the direct evaporation from the soil surface and serving as a boundary condition for soil profile models are presented.With 10 Figures     

Passive microwave signatures of landscapes in winter

Summary The successful application of passive microwave sensors requires signatures for the unambiguous inversion of the remote sensing data. Due to the large number of object types and large variability of physical properties, the inversion of data from land surfaces is a delicate and often ambiguous task. The present paper is a contribution to the assessment of multi-frequency passive microwave signatures of typical objects on land in winter. We discuss the behaviour of measured emissivities at vertical and horizontal polarization over the frequency range of 5 to 100 GHz (incidence angle of 50 degrees) of water and bare soil surfaces, grass and snowcovers under various conditions. These data and their variabilities lead us toward a classificaion algorithm for some, but not all object classes. Most snowcovers can easily be discriminated from other surfaces, difficulties occur for fresh powder snow if 94 GHz data are not available. The problem of wet snow has found a solution by using a certain combination of observables.In addition to snowcover types we find large differences between frozen and unfrozen bare soil. On the other hand the different situations of grasscovers show all very similar emissivities.For the estimation of physical parameters we propose algorithms for certain object classes. The estimation of surface temperature, especially for snow-free land, seems to be feasible, also the estimation of the snow liquid water content at the surface. For estimating soil moisture lower frequencies (e.g. 1.4 GHz) should be used.For the estimation of the Water Equivalent, WE, we cannot yet find a definitive solution. Certain correlations exist for dry winter snow between WE and observables at frequencies between 10 and 35 GHz. Especially the polarization difference at 10 GHz shows a monotonous increase with increasing WE. Algorithms using higher frequencies are more sensitive to WE, however, they are subject to ambiguities.With 7 Figures     

地面微波辐射计与测定区域性降水的初步试验

一、前言 被动式大气微波遥感探测是近十年来发展起来的一门崭新的遥感技术。自1968年以来,卫星运载的微波辐射计在遥感大气温度、云中含水量、降水强度及水汽密度等方面都取得了显著的成绩。与此同时,地面微波遥感探测也获得相应的发展,不仅类似空间遥感可以实现温度、水汽的反演,而且还将大大发挥微波探测雨云的特长,能有效地测得云中含水量、云中温度、以及降水强度等参数,这对云雾物理、人工影响天气的发展必将起到积极的作用。     

Subpixel fractional cloud cover and inhomogeneity effects on microwave beam-filling error

Using synthetic geometrical clouds and radiative microwave model, we examine the possibility to correct the estimations of liquid water path (LWP) or rain rate with cloud cover measurement. This information may be gotten by co-localized measurements of microwave and infrared/visible measurements on new satellites (TRMM, ADEOS 2, …). In a first step, the effects of fractional cloud cover on microwave brightness temperatures (TB) are investigated in three typical cases of nonprecipitating and precipitating (stratiform and convective) clouds. The beam-filling error (BFE) on brightness temperatures may be analyzed with the known spatial variability using 1D or 3D radiative transfer model. Relationships between BFE and subpixel cloud fraction (CF) are discussed according to the cloud type. We tested several parameters that characterize the horizontal cloud inhomogeneity within a radiometer field of view. BFE was found very sensitive to cloud type and inhomogeneity and is maximum for raining cloud with open spatial structure. In order to account for the uncertainty introduced by the spatial distribution, dependence of BFE on textural-based parameters is also discussed using homogeneity, entropy and an indicator of CF horizontal gradient.     

Generation and dissipation of microwave refractive-index fluctuations in the boundary layer

The index of refraction and its short-term variations have been measured on a 152-m meteorological tower at three fixed levels and on a moveable platform. Analysis of the data reveals that the time rates of production and dissipation of refractivity fluctuations are approximately in balance under a variety of meteorological conditions, and that changes in the rate of dissipation usually coincide with comparable changes in the rate of production. Under reasonably stationary conditions, terms corresponding to the rate of change and vertical diffusion of refractivity variance are found to be negligible. Power spectral densities of the variations increase when the rate of generation (and dissipation) increase, and conversely. Comparison of the results with simultaneous acoustic sounder returns provides a valuable insight into the mechanisms responsible for changes in the rates of production and dissipation.     

Arctic sea-ice variations from time-lapse passive microwave imagery

This paper presents: (1) a short historical review of the passive microwave research on sea ice which established the observational and theoretical base permitting the interpretation of the first passive microwave images of Earth obtained by the Nimbus-5 ESMR; (2) the construction of a time-lapse motion picture film of a 16-month set of serial ESMR images to aid in the formidable data analysis task; and (3) a few of the most significant findings resulting from an early analysis of these data, using selected ESMR images to illustrate these findings.     

Computer demodulation technique for a dual-channel microwave radiometer

The three stairstep output of the video amplifier has now been designed for the NOAA/WPL dual-channel radiometer in order to provide an analog input to one A/D converter instead of to two phase-detectors, and the synchronous detection for data and AGC is done in software. We put the new system into the dual-channel radiometer which was set in Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) to make experiments for three weeks and found the processor reliable and flexible.     

Single scattering from frozen hydrometeors at microwave frequencies

Scattering of electromagnetic waves from homogeneous or coated spheres can be computed in a mathematically exact way using the Mie theory. Therefore, for many approaches in remote sensing, frozen hydrometeors are parameterized as ice spheres. However, many frozen hydrometeors have non-spherical overall shapes and lack a spherically symmetric internal structure. They exist in a huge variety of shapes and exhibit different mixtures of ice, water and air. Therefore it is desirable to accurately compute scattering from non-spherical particles in order to clearly understand the effect the shape of a hydrometeor has on its scattering pattern.In this study, single scattering parameters like scattering cross section, absorption cross section, and asymmetry factor were calculated for frozen hydrometeors using the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA). The particles were modeled as hexagonal plates, columns, needles and dendrites by applying known dimensional relationships. The calculations were carried out over a wide range of centimeter and millimeter-wavelengths (1 GHz to 300 GHz), since millimeter-wave radiometers are highly sensitive to scattering by frozen hydrometeors in the atmosphere.The study results show that for size parameters < 1 (a ratio between wavelength and particle size) the scattering cross section of randomly orientated ice crystals is close to that of an equal volume ice sphere. Absorption cross section and asymmetry factor of non-spherical particles however are up to twice as high as that of equal volume ice spheres. Further the influence of the assumed model for the refractive index of ice at microwave wavelengths on the scattering parameters is investigated.     

地基微波辐射计资料的质量控制及同化应用研究

针对地基微波辐射计反演资料的质量问题,利用北京区域7个站点的RPG-HATPRO型微波辐射计反演的温湿数据,在传统质量控制方法的基础上,通过增加双权重检查和偏差订正方法,设计了新的质量控制方案,而后针对质量控制后的温湿廓线开展了同化应用研究,结果表明:只有个别站点的反演温度误差较大,反演温度误差大的站点在质量控制前最大均方根误差为8 ℃,但在质量控制后均方根误差下降到4 ℃以内,误差下降50％以上,而对于反演温度误差小的站点,质量控制只对高层数据有所改善;进一步分析表明所有站点的反演相对湿度误差都比较大,在质量控制前反演的相对湿度均方根误差最大甚至达到50％,但在质量控制后所有站点反演的相对湿度均方根误差都降到20％以内,误差显著降低,同时经过质量控制后的反演温湿数据误差平均偏差降为0左右,误差满足高斯分布,符合同化的要求。同化试验表明:与控制试验相比,同化质量控制后的地基微波辐射计反演温湿廓线资料能有效改善模式对所有量级的6 h累积降水量预报,无论是降水中心位置预报还是降水量级预报,都使得模式降水预报更加趋近实况,同化试验还表明同化对温湿场有较大影响,使得模式温湿场更加合理,能有效提高模式的预报准确率。     

RPG-HATPRO-G3地基微波辐射计反演产品评估

RPG-HATPRO-G3地基微波辐射计采用“多通道并行测量技术”,性能稳定,反演精度高。应用该微波辐射计和常规L波段探空数据,比较了微波辐射计反演数据与探空测值的差异。结果表明：温度、水汽密度与常规探空资料比较有很好的线性相关性,对仪器维护后可以提高数据质量;相对湿度数据离散度较高。比较无降水时不同高度下微波辐射计反演数据的精度,温度在1 000 m以下低层平均误差和均方根误差较小;水汽密度的平均误差和均方根误差均为近地面较大,随高度而减小;相对湿度的平均误差和均方根误差都明显较大,温度和水汽密度的准确性高于相对湿度。降水时不同高度的温度、水汽密度和相对湿度的平均误差和均方根误差变化趋势均与无降水时相似,但是误差值明显偏大;降水时反演温度在2 000 m以下误差较小,水汽密度在3 000 m以下反演值较探空测值大,相对湿度在降水时的误差较大。     

The investigation of microwave precipitation measurement at 37GHz

In this paper we use a 10-layer radiation transfer model to systematically investigate the relation between brightness temperature and the rainfall rates at 37 GHz, including various viewing of microwave (MW) remote sens-ing and different surface condition, with main focus on the influence of the structure of ice-phase layer. The results show that the quantitative rainfall measurement can not be reliably obtained over the land from spaceborne radiometer at this wavelength and the structures of ice layer are very important in determining the “observed” bright-ness temperature for the spaceborne MW remote sensing.     

Atmospheric corrections to passive microwave observations of the ocean

Microwave observations of the ocean surface are contaminated to a greater or lesser degree by the overlying atmosphere. The principal components of the atmosphere contributing to this contamination are molecular oxygen, water vapor, and water droplets. By means of measurements at several, well-chosen frequencies, these atmospheric parameters may be removed from ocean observations and themselves retrieved as a by-product. This is the basic concept of the Scanning Multifrequency Radiometer (SMMR). These corrections may be made by quasi-linear means to useful accuracies, even in the presence of moderate rain.     

The effect of cirrus clouds on microwave limb radiances

This study presents and analyses the first simulations of microwave limb radiances with clouds. They are computed using the 1D unpolarized version of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer System (ARTS). The study is meant to set a theoretical foundation for using microwave limb measurements for cloud monitoring. Information about clouds is required for the validation of climate models.Limb spectra are generated for the frequency bands of the Millimeter wave Acquisitions for Stratosphere/Troposphere Exchange Research (MASTER) instrument. For these simulations, the radiative transfer equation is solved using the Discrete Ordinate ITerative (DOIT) method, which is briefly described. Single scattering properties for the cloud particles are calculated using the T-matrix method.The impact of various cloud parameters is investigated. Simulated brightness temperatures most strongly depend on particle size, ice mass content and cloud altitude. The impact of particle shape is much smaller, but still significant. Increasing the ice mass content has a similar effect as increasing the particle size; this complicates the prediction of the impact of clouds on microwave radiances without exact knowledge of these cloud parameters.     

A review of applications of microwave radiometry to oceanography

The thermal microwave radiation from the ocean surface as seen from space is a function of the surface temperature and wind speed and is modified by liquid water and water vapor in the intervening atmosphere. Further, if the ocean surface is frozen, the emissivity is drastically increased and the effect of the intervening atmosphere is generally negligible. The emissivity of first-year ice is somewhat larger than that of multi-year ice.The data from the Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometers (ESMR's) on the Nimbus-5 and —6 satellites operating at wavelengths of 1.55 cm and 8 mm, respectively, can be interpreted in terms of rain rate, ice coverage and first-year versus multi-year ice determination. The rain-rate data are being used to establish a climatology of rainfall over the oceans. The ice data are being used by the United States Navy in support of international scientific efforts in the Antactic region. Both ice and rain data sets have been generated for the Global Atmospheric Research Project Data Systems Test.It is possible, by making multifrequency measurements, to separate the surface and atmospheric effects and to make useful measurements of sea surface temperature, surface wind speed, and atmospheric parameters along with improved measurements of rain and ice.     

多壁碳纳米管复合材料的微波吸收性能

用石蜡分别与多壁碳纳米管及大内径薄多壁碳纳米管按不同的质量比混合,制得了复合吸波材料.采用同轴法测量了复合材料在2~18 GHz范围内的复介电常数和复磁导率,并计算了材料对微波的反射率,分析了其吸波性能.结果表明:碳纳米管复合材料在2~18 GHz范围具有吸波性能.其中质量分数为15％的多壁碳纳米管的最大吸收峰在10.4 GHz,其值为-21.7 dB,质量分数为15％的大内径薄壁多壁碳纳米管的最大吸收峰在11.2 GHz,值为-17.6 dB.