RPG Download Area
In this area we offer a variety of documents which cover three main topics:
- The Radiometer section contains all sorts of manuals and technical documentation on our radiometers and other hardware
- The Science section provides detailed background information on the scientific principles used in the radiometers: Peer reviewed papers, posters and helpful links (mainly on meteorological and geophysical applications)
- The FTP section references our public and anonymous FTP server area
Radiometers
Radiometer Manuals and Technical Documentation
- Manuals for RPG Standard Microwave Radiometers (meteorological vertical profiling, LWP (liquid water path), IWV (integrated water vapour), humidity profile, temperature profile, boundary layer temperature profile, Tau/opacity tipping radiometers)
- Manuals for all RPG-Dual-Polarization Radiometer types
- Technical Notes on radiometer types:
- HATPRO measurements examples (boundary layer scans and full troposheric profiles, humidity measurements)
References to scientific publications
- Paper on meteorological radiometers (HATPRO dual profiler): Rose et al. 2005
- Paper on 22-channel water vapor/profiling/cloud radiometer (MICCY): Crewell et al. 2001
Talks and conference contributions
- ISTP 2003, Leizig, Germany:
HATPRO dual profiler filterbank radiometer for operational networks. - AOGS 2004, Singapore:
Talk about filterbank profiling radiometers: hardware, design, and measurements. - IfM GEOMAR 2005, Kiel, Germany:
Talk on meteorological profilers (hardware and algorithms, partly in German):
Science
References to scientific publications
- Paper on HATPRO data analysis (scanning radiometer, spatial variability of water vapour fields): Kneifel et al. 2008
- Paper on Boundary layer observations in West Africa using a novel microwave radiometer (HATPRO dual profiler): Pospichal and Crewell 2007
- Paper on meteorological radiometers (HATPRO dual profiler): Rose et al. 2005
- Paper on 22-channel water vapor/profiling/cloud radiometer (MICCY): Crewell et al. 2001
- Paper on the use of polarization information for improved LWP observation and rain/cloud discrimination: Czekala et al. 2001
- Observational evidence of polarization signatures in microwave observations of cloud and rain (Validation): Czekala et al. 2001
- General theoretical background on microwave radiative transfer in raining atmospheres: Ph.D. thesis Czekala
Talks and conference contributions
- AOGS 2004, Singapore:
Radiative transfer talk - ISTP 2003, Leipzig, Germany:
Dual polarized microwave radiometry of clouds and rain - MWRS 2001, Boulder, CO, USA:
Polarized microwave observations from space: TRMM/TMI measurements
FTP Server
This is our public/anonymous FTP server:
- Server:
- ftp.radiometer-physics.de
- User:
- anonymous
- Password:
- your email address
Data intended for us (RPG) should be uploaded into the "incoming" directory (contents are hidden, write only). Data that we want to share with you is in the "pub" directory.
