@article {Cimini:February 2006:0941-2948:45, author = "Cimini, Domenico", author = "Hewison, Tim J.", author = "Martin, Lorenz", author = "Guldner, Jurgen", author = "Gaffard, Catherine", author = "Marzano, Frank S.", title = "Temperature and humidity profile retrievals from ground-based microwave radiometers during TUC", journal = "Meteorologische Zeitschrift", volume = "15", year = "February 2006", abstract = "Thermodynamic atmospheric profiles have been retrieved from ground-based microwave radiometers during the Temperature, hUmidity, and Cloud (TUC) profiling campaign. A variety of inversion methods is presented, in terms of requirements, advantages, and limitations. Results confirm the theoretical expectation that retrievals' accuracy and resolution degrade steadily with height up to 3 km, then more rapidly. At higher levels the retrievals' accuracy does not improve on that of a Numerical Weather Prediction model, which provides a background for the variational technique. Most retrieval methods produce a bias in the temperature profile above 1 km, which may be due to a bias in the absorption model used and/or observations at 51-54 GHz. Elevation scanning is shown to improve the accuracy and resolution of the retrievals in the boundary layer, but is limited by technical shortcomings.", pages = "45-56(12)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/mz/2006/00000015/00000001/art00007" doi = "doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0099" }