Development of spaceborne rain radar in China: The first results from airborne dual-frequency rain radar Field campaign

Author

Yang, Hu ; Shang, Jian ; Wu, Qiong ; Yin, Honggang ; Guo, Yang

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Radiometric Calibration & Validation for Environ. Satellites, China Meteorol. Adm. (LRCVES/CMA), Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

1551

Lastpage

1553

Abstract

A Dual-frequency rain radar is planned In FY3(02)-E satellite, which is planed to be launched in 2016. In present, A dual-frequency airborne radar (ADPR) was developed in China, Field campaigns were carried out from July to October in 2010. To validate the instruments performance, Radar data from different sources were collected during the field campaign, include TRMM-PR 2A21/2A25 data products, car-borne X/ka band Doppler radar and ground weather radar data. Results from field campaign shows that, the overall performance of ADPR Ku/Ka radar are fulfilled with the requirement of china space-borne dual frequency ram radar(CDPR).

Keywords

artificial satellites; meteorological radar; rain; remote sensing by radar; AD 2010 07 to 10; AD 2016; China; Doppler radar; FY3(02)-E satellite; TRMM-PR 2A21/2A25 data product; airborne dual frequency rain radar field campaign; ground weather radar data; spaceborne rain radar; Airborne radar; Meteorological radar; Ocean temperature; Rain; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; One; five; four; three; two;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049365

Filename

6049365