SGER: Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) Support for HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO)

HIAPER极对极观测（HIPPO）计划将通过整个对流层深度的垂直剖面提供重要碳循环和绿色室内气体的全球、区域覆盖。 这将能够关闭和反演这些关键气体（如二氧化碳，一氧化碳和甲烷）的全球预算，以及相关的长寿命示踪剂及其比例。 该计划将提供第一次全面的全球大气痕量气体调查，涵盖所有季节和多年的整个对流层。 微波温度廓线仪（MTP）可以对HIPPO做出重要贡献，因为它通过识别对流层顶的高度为其他测量提供气象背景。这些测量将用于了解示踪剂/对流层顶难题。MTP测量的另一个好处是，它们也可以用来识别等熵线-空气包裹流动的流线。(This通过将温度曲线转换为势温曲线，然后在连续曲线上识别特定势温值的高度来完成。 这使得大气波的存在被识别，这可以进一步促进其他测量的解释。 最后，由于海洋区域是出了名的无线电探空仪稀疏，MTP温度廓线将填补这一空白，并允许更好地初始化大气化学模型。

The HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) program will provide global, meridional coverage of important carbon cycle and green house gases via vertical profiles throughout the depth of the troposphere. This will enable closure and inversion of global budgets of these critical gases (such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane), as well as related long-lived tracers and their ratios. This program will provide the first comprehensive, global survey of atmospheric trace gases, covering the full troposphere in all seasons and multiple years. The Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) can make an important contribution to HIPPO because it provides meteorological context for the other measurements by identifying the height of the tropopause.These measurements will be used to understand tracer/tropopause conundrums. An added benefit of the MTP measurements is that they can also be used identify isentropes - the streamlines on which air parcels flow. (This is done by converting the temperature profile to a potential temperature profile, and then identifying on successive profiles the height of a specific potential temperature value.) This allows the presence of atmospheric waves to be identified, which could further facilitate the interpretation of other measurements. Finally, since oceanic regions are notoriously radiosonde sparse, the MTP temperature profiles will fill this void and allow better initialization of atmospheric chemistry models.