A high-resolution Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler for tropical cyclones

Author

Castells, A. ; Carswell, J.R. ; Chang, P.S.

Author_Institution

Microwave Remote Sensing Lab., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2013

Abstract

The Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) has developed the Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (IWRAP) to improve the ability to nowcast and forecast extreme weather-events. This novel instrument is devoted to improve our knowledge in both the atmospheric boundary layer perturbances as well as the ocean surface winds, by providing both reflectivity and Doppler profiles simultaneously at C and Ku-band and at four incidence angles

Keywords

Doppler radar; atmospheric boundary layer; meteorological radar; rain; remote sensing by radar; storms; weather forecasting; wind; C-band; Doppler profiles; IWRAP; Ku-band; Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory; University of Massachusetts; atmospheric boundary layer perturbations; extreme weather-events; forecast; high-resolution Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler; incidence angles; nowcast; ocean surface winds; reflectivity; tropical cyclones; High-resolution imaging; Instruments; Laboratories; Microwave imaging; Oceans; Rain; Reflectivity; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Wind forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.977887

Filename

977887