Title :
Cloud Profiling Radar Performance Eastwood Im
Author :
Im, E. ; Tanelli, Simone ; Durden, Stephen L. ; Kyung Pak
Author_Institution :
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena
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 during the first year in flight is provided.
Keywords :
aerosols; atmospheric precipitation; backscatter; clouds; meteorological radar; remote sensing by radar; AD 2006 06 02; Cloud Profiling Radar; CloudSat Mission; cloud structure; frequency 94 GHz; global time series; radar backscatter; radar performance; science instrument; Airborne radar; Clouds; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Laser radar; NASA; Radar measurements; Reflectivity; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; A-train; CloudSat; Clouds; radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1211-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1212-9
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422997
