Polarized thermal microwave emission from oxygen in the mesosphere
Abstract
The thermally emitted microwave spectrum of the terrestrial atmosphere, viewed from above, is calculated for frequencies in the vicinity of a Zeeman-split oxygen line. The effect of the polarization-dependent real part of the refractive index is included. A radiometer configuration for measuring the mesospheric temperature from a satellite is described.
- Publication:
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Radio Science
- Pub Date:
- October 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1029/RS023i005p00721
- Bibcode:
- 1988RaSc...23..721R
- Keywords:
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- Mesosphere;
- Microwave Spectra;
- Oxygen Spectra;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Thermal Emission;
- Line Spectra;
- Magnetic Dipoles;
- Zeeman Effect