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Science Objectives |
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| Instrument Acronym |
General Hurricane | Landfalling Hurricane | TRMM Science Cal/Val | Alternate Science |
| AMPR | Convection/storm intensity, relationships, eye wall structures, rain mapping | Rain mapping, changes of convection in landfalling storms; relationship of electrification to signal storm intensity changes | Validation of TMI TB and rain algorithms | Underflights of SSM/I and TMI |
| EDOP | Storm dynamics, eye wall structures, storm microphysics | See AMPR description | Vertical storm structure, validation of algorithms and PR vertical structure | N/A |
| LIP | Convection/Storm intensity relationships, eye wall structure, rain mapping, relationships of lightning/electrification to storm dynamics/microphysics | See AMPR description | CAL/VAL: validation of LIS and rain algorithms | Validation of Optical Transient Detector (OTD) |
| MAMS | Upper tropospheric humidity, water vapor and SST | N/A | Validations of VIRS | Validation of MODIS 6 micron channel |
| MAS | Cloud microphysics at high resolution | N/A | N/A | Cal/Val of MODIS on cross calibrations with NAST |
| MIR | Water vapor profiles, ice water path | See AMPR description | N/A | NOAA-K and DMSP underflights |
| NAST-I | Thermodynamic structure, eye subsidence/warm core, surface heat flux relationships | Thermal gradient, wind steering | Precipitation height from microwave validation | NOAA-K validation, AIRS spectroscopy and algorithm validation |
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