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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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 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 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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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 | ||||
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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