| Instrument Characteristics |
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| Instrument Acronym | Instrument Type | Temporal Resolution | Spatial Resolution | Data Vol/Mission |
| AMMR |
Radiometer (fixed) 10-92 GHz 45 deg upview:21 & 37 GHz Nadir view: 18 & 37 GHz |
1 second | ~1-2 km @ surface | |
| ARMAR |
Doppler radar (13.8 GHz) (Thru-nadir scanning) (multi-polarization) |
1.8 seconds/scan 10 MHz sample rate 5 kHz PRF |
800 m at surface, 80 m range resolution (after averaging) |
> 10 GB (raw), 200-600 MB (processed) |
| AVAPS | NCAR/GPS sonde | System can track 4 sondes simultaneously | 10 m (vertical) | <50 KB per sonde release |
| CAPAC | FSSP300 aerosol/cloud partice spectrometer; 2D-Cloudprobe; 2D-Precipitation probe; 2D-Greyscale probe; Cloudscope | .1 Hz | 2 km (at 200 m/sec aircraft speed) | < 1 GB |
| JPL SAW | Microhygrometer | TBD (up to 0.1 sec) | Single point measurement | 10 MB |
| Laser Hygrometer | diode laser spectrometer | nominally 1 sec @ 10Hz, minimum .128 sec @ 8Hz. | Dependent on sampling rate. 25 meters minimum. | 500 KB |
| LASE | Differential Absorption Lidar |
3 seconds per profile; 2 min. (averaged) |
Water profiles: 0.2 km (vert.), 5 km (horiz.), 100 m to tropopause Relative aerosol scattering profiles: 30 m (vert.), 200 m (horiz.), ground to 20 km |
200 MB |
| MACAWS | Doppler lidar (side-scanning) | Depends on pulse repetition frequency, scanning pattern, signal processing parameters |
Horizontal coverage 2-30 km; Horizontal resolution: Line of Sight winds 150-450m, Calculated wind vectors 1-3 km; Vertical coverage 4.2-10 km |
500 MB |
| MMS | Rosemount probes | up to 5-Hz | 40-m at 200 m/s airspeed |
preliminary field data: 2-Mbyte high resolution data: 25-Mbyte |
| PSR | Passive microwave radiometer | Complete conical scan each 10 seconds, independent radiometric samples every 25 msec. | 2.5x5 km footprints at 10.7 & 18.7 Ghz, 12 km altitude; 0.8x1.3 km footprints at 37& 89 Ghz, 12 km altitude; | 30 Mbytes [raw data] |
