Title :
CloudSat’s Cloud Profiling Radar after 1 year in orbit
Author :
Im, Eastwood ; Tanelli, Simone ; Durden, Stephen L.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA
Abstract :
The cloud profiling Radar (CPR), the primary science instrument of the CloudSat mission, is a 94-GHz nadir-looking radar that measures the power backscattered by clouds as a function of distance from the radar. This instrument has been acquiring global time series of vertical cloud structure at 500-m vertical resolution and 1.4-km horizontal resolution since June 2, 2006. In this paper an overview of the radar performance after the first year in flight is provided.
Keywords :
meteorological radar; time series; CloudSat cloud profiling radar; CloudSat mission; global time series; nadir-looking radar; Airborne radar; Atmospheric measurements; Clouds; Extraterrestrial measurements; Ice; Optical scattering; Radar measurements; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; Water; A-Train; CloudSat; cloud; radar;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference, 2008. RADAR '08. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1538-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1097-5659
DOI :
10.1109/RADAR.2008.4721124
