The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer: Present and future

Author

Miller, Timothy L. ; James, M.W. ; Roberts, J.B. ; Biswas, Sujoy Kumar ; Cecil, Daniel ; Jones, W. Linwood ; Johnson, Jamie ; Farrar, Spencer ; Sahawneh, Saleem ; Ruf, C.S. ; Morris, Milton ; Uhlhorn, E.W. ; Black, P.G.

Author_Institution

Earth Sci. Office, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

1897

Lastpage

1899

Abstract

The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) is an airborne passive microwave radiometer designed to provide high resolution, wide swath imagery of surface wind speed in tropical cyclones from a low profile planar antenna with no mechanical scanning. Wind speed and rain rate images from HIRAD´s first field campaign (GRIP, 2010) are presented here followed, by a discussion on the performance of the newly installed thermal control system during the 2012 HS3 campaign. The paper ends with a discussion on the next generation dual polarization HIRAD antenna (already designed) for a future system capable of measuring wind direction as well as wind speed.

Keywords

atmospheric measuring apparatus; microwave antennas; microwave measurement; radiometry; storms; wind; AD 2010; AD 2012; GRIP; HS3 campaign; Hurricane Imaging Radiometer; airborne passive microwave radiometer; high resolution wide swath imagery; low profile planar antenna; next generation dual polarization HIRAD antenna; rain rate images; surface wind speed; thermal control system; tropical cyclones; wind direction measurement; Antenna measurements; Control systems; Hurricanes; Microwave radiometry; Ocean temperature; Rain; Wind speed; HIRAD; hurricane wind speed; imaging radiometer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723174

Filename

6723174