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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Accumulation Radar | Carl Leuschen (PI) | U Kansas | P-3 Orion - WFF | Radar | Snow Thickness, Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 600-900 MHz | when operated from aircraft | |||||
Airborne Cloud Radar | ACR | Steven J Dinardo (PI) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter (DOE) | Radar | Radar Reflectivity | Vertical profile
| Zenith (directly upwards), Nadir (directly downwards)
| 150 m
| 94.905 GHz; 94.915 GHz; 94.925 GHz; 94.935 GHz | ||||
Airborne Glacier and Land Ice Surface Topography Interferometer | GLISTIN-A | Delwyn Moller (PI) | JPL | Gulfstream C-20A (GIII) - AFRC | Interferometer, Radar | Topography | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
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Airborne Rain Mapping Radar | ARMAR | Steve Durden (Co-I) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC | Radar | Doppler Velocity, Radar Reflectivity, Brightness Temperature | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 9000 m (at 12 km)
| 800 m (at 12 km)
| 13.8 GHz | |||
Airborne Second Generation Precipitation Radar | APR-2 | Simone Tanelli (PI) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Radar | Radar Reflectivity, Doppler Velocity | Vertical profile
| Cross-track scanning
| 13.4 GHz; 35.6 GHz | Ku band | ||||
Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar | AIRSAR | Yunling Lou (PI) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC | Radar | Radar backscatter | Ground
| Downwards pointing but not directly downwards (angles: 20-50)
| 10 m (at 8 km)
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Airborne Third Generation Precipitation Radar | APR-3 | Simone Tanelli (PI) | JPL | P-3 Orion - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC | Radar | Radar Reflectivity, Doppler Velocity | Vertical profile
| Cross-track scanning
| 0.2 Hz
| 120 m
| 13.4 GHz; 35.6 GHz; 94 GHz | Ku band | ||
Cloud Radar System | CRS | Gerald Heymsfield (PI) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC, WB-57 - JSC | Radar | Radar Reflectivity, Doppler Velocity | Vertical profile
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 115 m
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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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Delay-Doppler Phase-monopulse Radar | D2P | Keith Raney (PI) | JHU APL | P-3 Orion - WFF | Radar | Altitude | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Dual-Frequency Airborne Precipitation Radar | PR-2 | Eastwood Im (PI) | JPL | DC-8 - AFRC | Radar | Doppler radar backscatter | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 14 GHz; 35 GHz | |||||
ER-2 Doppler Radar | EXRAD | Gerald Heymsfield (PI) | NASA GSFC | ER-2 - AFRC | Radar | Radar Reflectivity, Doppler Velocity, | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards), Downwards pointing but not directly downwards
| 1200 m (at 20 km)
| 9.72 GHz | ||||
Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Snow Thickness Radar | FMCW | Carl Leuschen (PI) | U Kansas | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF | Radar | Snow Thickness | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 2-8 GHz | |||||
Global Ice-sheet Mapping Orbiter | GISMO | Ken Jezek (PI) | Ohio State | P-3 Orion - WFF | Interferometer, Radar | Topography | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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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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Ku-band Radar Altimeter | Carl Leuschen (PI) | U Kansas | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, C-130H - WFF | Radar | Sea Ice Surface Elevation | Ground
| 13-17 GHz | |||||||
Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder | MCoRDS | Carl Leuschen (PI) | U Kansas | DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Radar | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 20-60 MHz | |||||
Passive Active L- and S-band Sensor | PALS | Sid Misra (PI) | JPL | C-130H - WFF, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC, DC-8 - AFRC | Radar, Scatterometer, Radiometer | Radar backscatter, Ocean Salinity, Soil Moisture | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 1.26 GHz; 1.413 GHz | scatterometer | ||||
Pathfinder Advanced Radar Ice Sounder | PARIS | Keith Raney (PI) | JHU APL | P-3 Orion - WFF | Radar | Topography | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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Polarimetric Ku-Band Scatterometer | PolSCAT | Steven J Dinardo (PI) | JPL | C-130H - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC, P-3 Orion - WFF, Twin Otter - GRC | Radar, Scatterometer | Radar backscatter | Ground
| Conical scanning
| 13.95 GHz | |||||
Sea Ice Thickness Penetrating Radar Instrument | SITPRI | Ben Holt (PI) | U Kansas | Radar | Ice Sheet Thickness | Ground
| Nadir (directly downwards)
| 0.1-0.3 GHz; 0.8-1.2 GHz; 4-8 GHz | ice bottom surface | |||||
Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar | UAVSAR | Yunling Lou (PI) | JPL | Gulfstream C-20A (GIII) - AFRC, Gulfstream III - JSC | Radar | Imagery | Ground
| Cross-track scanning
| 20000 m (at 12 km)
| 6 m (at 12 km)
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Vapor In-Cloud Profiling Radar | VIPR | Ken Cooper (PI) | JPL | Twin Otter, P-3 Orion - WFF, DC-8 - AFRC | Radar | H2O Vapor | Integrated vertical column
| Nadir (directly downwards)
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