| ER-2 Products & Data Needs |
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| Instrument Acronym | Direct Products | P.I. Derived Products | Potential Products | |
| AMPR |
Raster TB imagery;
In-field: Calibrated TB |
Lat/Lon gridded TB imagery | Precip rate, hydrometeor profiles | |
| EDOP |
Reflectivity, doppler velocity; In-field: Uncalibrated reflectivities & velocity for selected flights |
Attenuation corrected reflectivity, hydrometeor vertical motions | Vertical velocities, horizontal flow, rainrate, path attention, surface backscatter cross section, air flow streamlines | |
| LIP |
Atmospheric conductivity, eletric field components, and aircraft charge
In-field: Quick looks at direct products |
Total lightning count & rates; lightning statistics; storm current output, storm charge structure | Quantified lightning related with precipitation, convective mass/ice flux, latent heat, storm current output | |
| MAMS |
Calibrated brightness temperature (IR) and radiance (Vis);
In-field: Vis/IR images and line plots of nadir brightness temperatures |
Total column water vapor; sea/land surface temperature | Cloud top height and temperature | |
| MAS |
Calibrated brightness temperatures (IR bands) and radiances, sub-sampled imagery;
In-field: MAS quick look |
Cloud particle phase, cloud height, cloud mask | Aerosol optical depth, cloud reflectance, precipitable water | |
| MIR |
Calibrated brightness temperatures, raster brightness images;
In-field: water vapor profiles if temperature profiles available and brightness temperature images |
Water vapor profiles (require temperature profiles) | N/A | |
| NAST-I | Calibrated brightness temperature spectra IR | Atmospheric soundings, ocean surface temperatures, precipitation cell height, cloud height/radiative properties, cloud microphysical properties | Cloud properties | |
| NAST-MTS | microwave brightness temperatures | Interpolated, microwave-only, clear-air temperature retrievals | Microwave-Infrared combined temperature and humidity and retrievals with cloud corrections. | |
