A tutorial assessment of atmospheric height uncertainties for high-precision satellite altimeter missions to monitor ocean currents
A tutorial assessment of atmospheric height uncertainties for high-precision satellite altimeter missions to monitor ocean currents
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A large body of information from a number of sources is brought together and an error budget is deduced giving the projected overall height uncertainty correction for a suggested next generation high-precision radar altimeter. Uncertainties introduced by the wet and dry troposphere, clouds, and the ionosphere are reviewed. A suggested next-generation precision altimeter is assumed to be dual frequency (13.5 and 6 GHz) designed to correct the ionospheric error. The altimeter-carrying satellite will include a nadir pointing near coincident-beam dual-frequency microwave radiometer for mitigating the wet tropospheric uncertainty. The combined uncertainty in the height correction due to the atmosphere for the suggested system should be nominally 3 cm rms compared to at least 6 cm associated with the Seasat-A mission.
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A tutorial assessment of atmospheric height uncertainties for high-precision satellite altimeter missions to monitor ocean currents
Eine Tutorabschaetzung der Unsicherheit der atmosphaerischen Hoehe fuer hochpraezise Satelliten-Hoehenmesser zur Ueberwachung von Meeresstroemungen
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ; GE-20 , 4 ; 418-434
1982
17 Seiten, 48 Quellen
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English
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