Airborne rain mapping radar and preliminary observations during TOGA/COARE

Author

Li, F. ; Durden, S.L. ; Im, E. ; Tanner, A. ; Ricketts, W. ; Wilson, W. ; Meneghini, R. ; Iguchi, T. ; Nakamura, K.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Aug 1993

Firstpage

832

Abstract

An Airborne Rain MApping Radar (ARMAR) has been developed by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for operation on the NASA DC-8 aircraft. ARMAR simulates the TRMM radar system by using the 13.8 GHz frequency and by looking downward and scanning its antenna in the cross-track direction. The capabilities of ARMAR also include: vertical rain profiling at multiple polarization, Doppler velocity profiling, and brightness temperature measurement. ARMAR participated in TOGA COARE in the tropical pacific during January and February of 1993. Various tropical rain systems were observed during this experiment

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; polarimetry; rain; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; 13.8 GHz; ARMAR; Airborne Rain MApping Radar; COARE; Doppler velocity profiling; SHF microwave; TOGA; TRMM; airborne radar remote sensing; atmosphere meteorology; cross-track direction; geophysical measurement technique; multiple polarization; polarimetry; tropical pacific; vertical rain profiling; Airborne radar; Aircraft propulsion; Directive antennas; Doppler radar; Frequency; Laboratories; NASA; Polarization; Radar antennas; Rain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1240-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322208

Filename

322208