NPOESS Aircraft Sounder Testbed-Microwave (NAST-M): results from CAMEX-3 and WINTEX

Author

Blackwell, W.J. ; Chen, E.W. ; Leslie, R.V. ; Rosenkranz, P.W. ; Schwartz, M.J. ; Staelin, D.H.

Author_Institution

MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

803

Abstract

The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Aircraft Sounding Testbed, or NAST, has recently been developed and deployed on the NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft. The testbed consists of two colocated scanning instruments: a Fourier-transform interferometer spectrometer (NAST-I) with spectral coverage of 3.7-15.5 μm, and a passive microwave spectrometer (NAST-M) with channels near oxygen absorption lines at 50-57 GHz and 118.75 GHz. NAST-M collected imagery from over 20 overpasses of hurricanes Bonnie and Earl during CAMEX-3 (Convection and Moisture Experiment, Florida, Summer 1998). The imagery clearly reveals the warm cores and convection morphology of hurricanes Bonnie and Earl

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; radiometry; remote sensing; storms; 118.75 GHz; 50 to 57 GHz; AD 1998; Bonnie; CAMEX-3; Convection and Moisture Experiment; EHF; Earl; Florida; NAST; NAST-M; NPOESS; NPOESS Aircraft Sounder Testbed; NPOESS Aircraft Sounder Testbed-Microwave; National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System; USA; United States; WINTEX; atmosphere; convection morphology; hurricane; measurement technique; meteorology; microwave radiometry; mm wave; passive microwave spectrometer; remote sensing; storm; tropical cyclone; warm core; Acoustic testing; Aircraft; Electromagnetic heating; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Hurricanes; Instruments; NASA; Satellites; Spectroscopy; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.861709

Filename

861709