13:20  F9-1  SUBMILLIMETER WAVE LNA BASED RECEIVERS USING INP HEMT TECHNOLOGY

William R. Deal*

RF and Mixed Signal Products, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Redondo Beach, CA

13:40  F9-2  DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNALLY-CALIBRATED, DIRECT-DETECTION MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETERS FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING OF WET-TROPOSPHERIC PATH DELAY

Victoria D. Hadel*¹, Steven C. Reising¹, Xavier Bosch-Lluis¹, Thaddeus Johnson¹, Pekka Kangaslahti², Sharmila Padmanabhan², Chaitali Parashare², Shannon T. Brown², Alan B. Tanner², Oliver Montes²

¹Microwave Systems Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
²Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

14:00  F9-3  APPLICATION OF COHERENCE THEORY TO MODELING OF BLACKBODY RADIATION AT CLOSE RANGE

Dazhen Gu*, David K. Walker

Electromagnetics, NIST, Boulder, CO

14:20  F9-4  CHARACTERIZATION OF AUTOEMISSION REFLECTION AT HIGH FREQUENCIES FOR PRECISE RADIOMETER CALIBRATION

Derek A. Houtz*^1,2, Al J. Gasiewski³, David Kraft³, Vladimir Leuski³

¹Aerospace Engineering & Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
²RF/Electromagnetics, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
³Electrical Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

14:40  F9-5  DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF AN AMBIENT CALIBRATION TARGET FOR AN AIRBORNE MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETER

Thaddeus P. Johnson*¹, Xavier Bosch-Lluis¹, Steven C. Reising¹, Weldon A. Johnson¹, Victoria D. Hadel¹, Pekka Kangaslahti², Shannon T. Brown², Alan B. Tanner²

¹Microwave Systems Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
²California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena

15:20  F9-6  PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR ACHIEVING SI TRACEABILITY IN MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING

David K. Walker*¹, Dazhen Gu², Derek Houtz²

¹Electromagnetics Division, NIST, Boulder, CO
²ECEE, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

15:40  F9-7  ENHANCED VALIDATION OF SATELLITE DERIVED SOUNDING PRODUCTS USING REFERENCE AND DEDICATED RADIOSONDES

Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez*¹, Anthony Reale², Nicholas R. Nalli¹, Murty Divakarla¹, Antonia Gambacorta¹, Bomin Sun¹, Changyi Tan¹, Xiaozheng Xiong¹, Eric S. Maddy³, Mike Wilson¹

¹I. M. Systems Group, Inc. at the NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD
²NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD
³Science and Technology Corporation at the NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD

16:00  F9-8  RECENT PROGRESS IN AIRBORNE MICROWAVE ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING

William Blackwell*¹, Gregory Allen¹, Michael DiLiberto¹, Christopher Galbraith¹, R. V. Leslie¹, Idahodsa Osaretin¹, Michael Scarito¹, Michael Shields¹, Erik Thompson¹, David Toher¹, Paul Racette², Larry Hilliard²

¹MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
²NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

16:20  F9-9  RESOLUTION AND PERFORMANCE OF THE CLOUDY SKY RATIO USING MEASURED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES FROM GROUND-BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS

Swaroop Sahoo*¹, Xavier Bosch-Lluis¹, Steven C. Reising¹, Jothiram Vivekanandan², Paquita Zuidema³, Scott M. Ellis²

¹Microwave Systems Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
²Earth Observing Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
³Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL

16:40  F9-10  OCEAN SALINITY FROM SPACE: ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES IN L-BAND RADIOMETRY

Thomas Meissner*, Frank Wentz, Kyle Hilburn

Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, California

17:00  F9-11  IMPROVEMENTS IN AN ANISOTROPIC OCEAN SURFACE EMISSIVITY MODEL BASED ON WINDSAT POLARIMETRIC BRIGHTNESS OBSERVATIONS

Dean F. Smith*, Albin J. Gasiewski

Dept. of ECEE, University of Colorado, Boulder CO