Simplified Radiometer for Quantifying Aircraft Icing Hazard

A simplified microwave radiometric apparatus has been proposed for use in quantifying the potential danger of accretion of ice onto an aircraft flying through a cloud. The quantity of interest, called the "icing hazard potential" (IHP), is the product of (1) the liquid-water content (LWC) of the cloud at a given altitude and (2) some function of the degree of supercooling of the liquid water at that altitude.