NASA NTRS · 19830028787
A microwave pressure sounder
Abstract
A technique for the remote measurement of atmospheric surface pressure will be described. Such measurements could be made from a satellite in polar orbit and would cover many areas for which conventional meteorological data are not available. An active microwave instrument is used to measure the strength of return echoes from the ocean surface at a number of frequencies near the 60 GHz oxygen absorption band. Factors which affect the accuracy with which surface pressure can be deduced from these measurements will be discussed and an instrument designed to test the method by making measurements from an aircraft will be described.
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Peckham, G. E., Flower, D. A.. 1981-01-01. A microwave pressure sounder. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19830028787
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