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 Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System | AVAPS | Gary Wick (PI) | NOAA ESRL | Global Hawk - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC | Dropsonde | Pressure, Temperature, Humidity, Wind | Vertical profile
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Conically-Scanning Two-look Airborne Radiometer | C-STAR | Anthony Guillory (Mgr) | NASA MSFC | DC-8 - AFRC | Radiometer | Wind, Rain Rate | Ground
| Conical scanning
| 37 GHz; 85 GHz | |||||
High Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler | HIWRAP | Gerald Heymsfield (PI) | NASA GSFC | Global Hawk - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC | Radar, Scatterometer | Radar Reflectivity, Doppler Velocity, Wind | Ground
| Conical scanning
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Hurricane Imaging Radiometer | HIRAD | Daniel Cecil (PI) | NASA MSFC | Global Hawk - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Radiometer | Wind, Rain Rate | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 22000 m (at 11 km)
| 1000 m (at 11 km)
| 4-7 GHz | |||
Multicenter Airborne Coherent Atmospheric Wind Sensor | MACAWS | Jeffry Rothermel (PI) | NASA MSFC | DC-8 - AFRC | Lidar | Wind, Aerosol Backscattering | Vertical profile
| Limb scanning
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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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Tropospheric Wind Lidar Technology Experiment | TWiLiTE | Bruce Gentry (PI) | NASA GSFC | DC-8 - AFRC, ER-2 - AFRC, Global Hawk - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Lidar | Wind | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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