Title | Acronym | Contact Person | Center | Aircraft | Type | Measurements | Measurement Range | Measurement Instrument Pointing | Measurement Frequency | Measurement Swath Width | Measurement Horizontal Resolution | Measurement Vertical Resolution | Measurement Wavelengths | Measurement Notes |
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Coherent Radar Depth Sounder | CARDS | Prasad Gogineni (PI) | U Kansas | P-3 Orion - WFF | Sounder, Radar | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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High Altitude Monolithic Microwave integrated Circuit (MMIC) Sounding Radiometer | HAMSR | Shannon Brown (Mgr) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, Global Hawk - AFRC | Sounder, Microwave Radiometer | Temperature, H2O | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 40000 m (at 20 km)
| 2000 m (at 20 km)
| 8 channels at 50-56 GHz; 10 channels at 113-119 GHz; 7 channels at 166-190 GHz | |||
Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere-Aircraft | MOPITT-A | James Drummond (PI) | ER-2 - AFRC | Sounder | CO, CH4 | Integrated vertical column
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Sea Surface Wind Speed | GPS-R Winds | Jim Garrison (PI) | Purdue | B200 - LARC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Sounder | Wind | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Warm Ice Sounding Explorer | WISE | Yonggyu Gim (PI) | JPL | DC-3, Twin Otter - GRC | Sounder | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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