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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Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer | AMPR | Timothy Lang (PI) | NASA MSFC | DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Microwave Radiometer | Brightness Temperature | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 10.7 GHz; 19.35 GHz; 37.1 GHz; 85.5 GHz | |||||
Configurable Scanning Submillimeter-wave Instrument/Radiometer | CoSSIR | Rachael Kroodsma (PI) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Microwave Radiometer | Brightness Temperature | Ground
| Cross-track scanning, Conical scanning
| 50000 m (at 20 km)
| 170.5 GHz; 177.3 GHz; 180.3 GHz; 182.3 GHz; 325 GHz; 684 GHz | 2 channels (V & H) | |||
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 | |||
Marshall Airborne Polarimetric Imaging Radiometer | MAPIR | Chip Laymon (PI) | NASA MSFC | P-3 Orion - WFF | Microwave Radiometer | Brightness Temperature | Ground
| Other vertical scanning
| 2 channels at 1400-1427 MHz; 2 channels at 1350-1450 MHz | |||||
Microwave Temperature Profiler | MTP | Richard Denning (Mgr) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, Global Hawk - AFRC, L-188C, M-55, Gulfstream V - NSF, WB-57 - JSC | Microwave Radiometer | Temperature | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Nadir (directly downwards)
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Wind Radiometer | WINDRAD | Steven J Dinardo (PI) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC | Microwave Radiometer | Brightness Temperature | In situ
| 17 GHz; 19 GHz; 37 GHz |