Radiometrics Corporation |
2840 Wilderness
Place, Unit G, Tel: +1 303
539 2313 |
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The
Radiometrics Temperature and Water Vapor Profiler (TP/WVP-3000) provides
continuous atmospheric temperature and humidity soundings up to 10 km in
height, and a low resolution cloud liquid sounding. The TP/WVP-3000 has
proven reliability and accuracy during more than one million hours of
operations in polar to tropical locations. In contrast to radiosondes,
the radiometric retrievals provide substantially improved temporal
resolution but coarser vertical spatial resolution, which declines in
proportion to the height above ground level. In this regard the
retrievals more closely match the temporal and spatial resolution of
numerical weather forecast models. Statistical comparisons between
radiometric retrievals and radiosonde soundings show that radiometric
retrieval errors are similar in magnitude to radiosonde
representativeness errors (~2 K or better in temperature, ~1.5 g/m3 or
better in water vapor density). These results demonstrate that
radiometric temperature and humidity soundings are equivalent in
accuracy to radiosondes when used for numerical weather analysis.
Continuous upper air soundings are essential for accurate short term
weather and dispersion analysis and forecasting. |
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Clouds |
Aviation |