ISMAR: an airborne submillimetre radiometer

Fox, Stuart; Lee, Clare; Moyna, Brian; Philipp, Martin; Rule, Ian; Rogers, Stuart; King, Robert; Oldfield, Matthew; Rea, Simon; Henry, Manju; Wang, Hui; Harlow, R. Chawn

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-477-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-477-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-477-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

Research article

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08 Feb 2017

Research article |

| 08 Feb 2017

ISMAR: an airborne submillimetre radiometer

Stuart Fox, Clare Lee, Brian Moyna, Martin Philipp, Ian Rule, Stuart Rogers, Robert King, Matthew Oldfield, Simon Rea, Manju Henry, Hui Wang, and R. Chawn Harlow

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Oct 2016
RC2: 'Review of Fox et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Oct 2016
SC1: 'Effects of antenna sidelobe and spillover?', Dong L. Wu, 09 Oct 2016
AC1: 'Response to comments', Stuart Fox, 12 Dec 2016

Short summary

In this paper we present the ISMAR instrument, a new airborne submillimetre radiometer designed for cloud ice remote sensing. We discuss the instrument calibration and evaluate the main sources of bias and the radiometric sensitivity in different measurement scenarios. We also compare clear-sky zenith measurements from high altitude with radiative transfer simulations to demonstrate the performance of ISMAR in flight.