Hi everybody, 

I am used to simulate ground-based microwave spectra with qpack (22GHz to 58 
GHz). 

I normally define a double side band average but now I would like to test my 
simulations with the assumption of monochromatic pencil beam. 

I keep the same qpack code and I only changed the variable Q.SENSOR_DO to false 
instead of true. However I obtain unreasonable 
brightness temperature in the most opaque channels of the O2 absorption band. 

Here is the spectrum that I simulate with the double side band average: 

37.1335 
36.2098 
31.8496 
23.8967 
21.4893 
18.8657 
17.9993 
109.5801 
151.6191 
249.6631 
278.5141 
283.6000 
283.8424 
283.9169 

whereas this is what I obtain with a monochromatic pencil beam calculation: 
36.9074 
37.6239 
36.9598 
35.3325 
33.2136 
30.9684 
28.8201 
26.8801 
25.1884 
23.7449 
22.5305 
21.5187 
20.6823 
19.9959 

I obtain 19K instead of 283 K for the most opaque channels, this is weird (the 
last 7 channels). 

Does anyone see what the problem is, I probably did not define all the 
variables needed, I just turned out the SENSOR_DO variable.. 

Thank you very much for your help. 

Best regards, 

Pauline 

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Dr. Pauline Martinet 
Chercheur CNRM/GMEI/LISA 
[email protected] 
Fixe : +33 561079031 
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