HIRAD is a new technology developed by NASA/MSFC, in partnership with NOAA and the Universities of Central Florida, Michigan, and Alabama-Huntsville. HIRAD is designed to measure wind speed and rain rate over a wide swath in heavy-rain, strong-wind conditions. HIRAD is expected to eventually fly routinely on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as Global Hawk over hurricanes threatening the U.S. coast and other Atlantic basin areas, and possibly in the Western Pacific as well. HIRAD first flew on GRIP in 2010 and is planned to fly 2012-14 on the NASA Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) missions on the Global Hawk, a high-altitude UAV. HIRAD technology will eventually be used on a satellite platform to extend the dynamical range of Ocean Surface Wind (OSV) observations from space.


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    Title :

    Observations of C-band Brightness Temperature from the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) During GRIP


    Contributors:
    Miller, Timothy L. (author) / James, M. W. (author) / Roberts, J. B. (author) / Buckley, C. D. (author) / Jones, W. L. (author) / Biswas, S. (author) / May, C. (author) / Ruf, C. S. (author) / Uhlhorn, E. W. (author) / Atlas, R. (author)

    Conference:

    30th AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology ; 2012 ; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, United States


    Publication date :

    2012-04-15


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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