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| Instrument Acronym |
Instrument Type |
Temporal Resolution |
Spatial Resolution |
Data Vol/Mission |
| AMMR |
Radiometer (fixed)
10-92 GHz
45 deg upview:21 & 37 GHz
Nadir view: 18 & 37 GHz |
1 second |
~1-2 km @ surface |
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| ARMAR |
Doppler radar (13.8 GHz)
(Thru-nadir scanning)
(multi-polarization) |
1.8 seconds/scan
10 MHz sample rate
5 kHz PRF |
800 m at surface,
80 m range resolution (after averaging) |
> 10 GB (raw), 200-600 MB (processed) |
| AVAPS |
NCAR/GPS sonde |
System can track 4 sondes simultaneously |
10 m (vertical) |
<50 KB per sonde release |
| CAPAC |
FSSP300 aerosol/cloud partice spectrometer;
2D-Cloudprobe; 2D-Precipitation probe; 2D-Greyscale probe; Cloudscope
|
.1 Hz |
2 km (at 200 m/sec aircraft speed) |
< 1 GB |
| JPL
SAW |
Microhygrometer |
TBD (up to 0.1 sec) |
Single point measurement |
10 MB |
| Laser
Hygrometer |
diode laser spectrometer |
nominally 1 sec @ 10Hz, minimum .128 sec
@ 8Hz. |
Dependent on sampling rate. 25 meters
minimum. |
500 KB |
| LASE |
Differential Absorption Lidar |
3 seconds per profile;
2 min. (averaged) |
Water profiles: 0.2 km (vert.), 5 km (horiz.),
100 m to tropopause
Relative aerosol scattering profiles: 30 m (vert.),
200 m (horiz.), ground to 20 km |
200 MB |
| MACAWS |
Doppler lidar (side-scanning) |
Depends on pulse repetition frequency,
scanning pattern, signal processing parameters |
Horizontal coverage 2-30 km; Horizontal
resolution: Line of Sight winds 150-450m, Calculated wind vectors 1-3
km;
Vertical coverage 4.2-10 km |
500 MB |
| MMS |
Rosemount probes |
up to 5-Hz |
40-m at 200 m/s airspeed |
preliminary field data: 2-Mbyte
high resolution data: 25-Mbyte |
| PSR |
Passive microwave radiometer |
Complete conical scan each 10 seconds,
independent radiometric samples every 25 msec. |
2.5x5 km footprints at 10.7 & 18.7 Ghz,
12 km altitude; 0.8x1.3 km footprints at 37& 89 Ghz, 12 km altitude; |
30 Mbytes [raw data] |
