Humidity And Temperature PROfilers

RPG's profiling radiometers are mainly used to derive vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and humidity (RPG-HATPRO). The infrared radiometer extension allows to cloud base height and ice cloud detection. The radiometer series covers high-resolution temperature profiling of the boundary layer and low-humidity applications. All models of the series provide accurate total amounts of atmospheric water vapor and cloud liquid cloud. RPG radiometers are stand-alone systems for automated weather-station use under nearly all environmental conditions. A variety of retrieval algorithms (custom designed and global standard algorithms) can be selected.

Applications:

Meteorological observations, Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), forecasting, now-casting, climate monitoring, aviation meteorology, astronomy, geodesy.

Frequencies:

Two bands, 22-31 GHz (7-channel filter-bank humidity profiler and LWP radiometer) and 51-58 GHz (7-channel filter-bank temperature profiler)

Retrieved data types:

• vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature
• vertical profile of atmospheric humidity (relative and absolute humidity)
• Liquid Water Path (LWP)
• Integrated Water Vapor (IWV)
• wet delay
• dry delay
• stability indices

This system is very similar to the RPG-LWP liquid water path (two channel) radiometer. Only the receiver systems vary, housing and additional sensors are basically the same.

Models:

Different model types of profiling radiometers are available.