mwrp

The microwave radiometer profiler (MWRP) provides vertical profiles of temperature, humidity, and cloud liquid water content as a function of height or pressure at approximately 5-minute intervals for nearly all weather conditions.

The profiles are derived from measurements of absolute microwave radiances (expressed as “brightness temperatures”) obtained at 12 frequencies in the range of 22-30 GHz and 51-59 GHz.

The data are useful for input to numerical weather forecast models and others that require continuous, high-temporal-resolution profiles. The microwave radiance measurements are useful for testing models of microwave radiation transfer used to derive the profiles.

Mixing ratio, water vap., vert. prof. sfc-10km, frm retr. water vap. dens. prof

North Slope Alaska - Central Facility, Barrow AK

• Latitude: 71.323
• Longitude: -156.615
• Publication Date: 2004-02-19
• Start Date: 2004-02-19
• End Date: 2023-09-28
• Last Updated: 2024-04-04

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Maria Cadeddu

Argonne National Laboratory

https://doi.org/10.5439/1025254
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. 2004. Microwave Radiometer Profiler (MWRP). 2004-02-19 to 2023-09-28, North Slope Alaska (NSA) Central Facility, Barrow AK (C1). Compiled by M. Cadeddu, G. Gibler and M. Tuftedal. ARM Data Center. Data set accessed at http://dx.doi.org/10.5439/1025254.