An Active Microwave Limb Sounder for Profiling Water Vapor, Ozone, Temperature, Geopotential of Pressure Surfaces and Clouds
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We present and characterize the performance of a new remote sensing concept extrapolated from the GPS occultation concept in which we choose the signal frequencies to determine profiles of atmospheric water, ozone, temperature, geopotential of atmospheric pressure surfaces and clouds.
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