NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) is currently developing advanced instrument concepts and technologies for the next generation of spaceborne atmospheric radars for clouds and precipitation measurements. Two representative examples are the Radar in a CubeSat (RainCube) – a miniaturized Ka-band precipitation intensity profiling radar for operation on a 6U CubeSat bus; and the Multi-Application Smallsat Tri-band Radar (MASTR) – a Ku/Ka/W band, electronic scanning, and Doppler atmospheric radar. These radar concepts will be capable of providing information on both the state and the process of the atmospheric water (as opposed to just the state information provided by existing spaceborne radars) to fill the current observational gaps in the advancement of weather and climate models.
The Next Generation of Spaceborne Radars for Cloud and Precipitation Measurements
RADAR 2017 - International Conference on Radar Systems 2017 ; 2017 ; Belfast, Ireland
2017-10-23
Conference paper
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English
System Concept for the Next-Generation Spaceborne Precipitation Radars
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