Short-term Prediction and Detection of Dynamic Atmospheric Effects by Microwave Radiometer

Abstract

Specific utilization of a microwave radiometer for online monitoring, detection and, especially, prediction of particular dynamic atmospheric effects such as precipitation and cloudiness is proposed in the paper. The ground-based microwave radiometer and meteorological stations were incorporated into the measurement campaign in order to observe actual brightness temperature changes. The characteristics of atmospheric parameters recorded over a period of 14 months were evaluated and new applications for rain forecasting and cloud detection, based on signal variance, were proposed and validated.

Keywords

• Microwave radiometer
• rain detection
• cloud detection
• wave propagation