EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON REAL-TIME REMOTE SENSING OF LAYERED ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITABLE BY A GROUND-BASED RADIOMETER OF 1.35 cm WAVELENGTH

The principle and technique of real-time remote sensing of the layered atmospheric precipitable by using a ground-based radiometer of 1.35 cm wavelength with a microcomputer as a controlling and data process-ing unit are presented. The stability and calibration of the instrument are outlined. Observations during the summer of 1984 show that the RMS deviation of the layered precipitable between the radiometer meas-urement and the radiosonde ranges from 0.20 to 0.25 g/cm2 with a correlation coefficient of above 90 %.