Exploiting tropospheric measurements from sun-Tracking radiometer for radiopropagation models at centimeter and millimeter wave
The objective of this paper is to characterize the atmospheric radiometeorological parameters (optical thickness and brightness temperature) at centimeter and millimeter waves. To this aim, we have exploited two radiative transfer models (RTMs): A three-dimensional model (3D-RTM), driven by numerical weather forecasts, and a stochastic one-dimensional (1-D) model (1D-RTM), fed by a synthetic clouds dataset. We have compared the radiative transfer simulations with measurements from two ground-based microwave radiometers: A profiler and a Sun-Tracking radiometer.