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The High Altitude MMIC Sounding Radiometer on the GLOBAL HAWK: From Technology Development to Science DiscoveryThis paper presents results from the High Altitude MMIC Sounding Radiometer (HAMSR) during three recent field campaigns on the Global Hawk Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAV), focusing on the enabling technology that led to unprecedented observations of significant weather phenomenon, such as thermodynamic evolution of the tropical cyclone core during rapid intensification and the high resolution three dimensional mapping of several atmospheric river events. HAMSR is a 25 channel cross-track scanning microwave sounder with channels near the 60 and 118 GHz oxygen lines and the 183 GHz water vapor line. HAMSR was originally designed and built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a technology demonstrator in 1998. Subsequent to this, HAMSR participated in three NASA hurricane field campaigns, CAMEX-4, TCSP and NAMMA. Beginning in 2008, HAMSR was extensively upgraded to deploy on the NASA Global Hawk (GH) platform and serve as an asset to the NASA sub-orbital program. HAMSR has participated on the Global Hawk during the 2010 Genesis and Rapid Intensification (GRIP) campaign, the 2011 Winter Storms and Atmospheric Rivers (WISPAR) campaign and is currently participating in the NASA Ventures Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) campaign (2011-2015).
Document ID
20150007402
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Brown, Shannon
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Denning, Richard
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lambrigtsen, Bjorn
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lim, Boon
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Tanabe, Jordan
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Tanner, Alan
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
May 6, 2015
Publication Date
July 21, 2013
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Meeting Information
Meeting: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Location: Melbourne
Country: Australia
Start Date: July 21, 2013
End Date: July 26, 2013
Sponsors: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
NASA sub-orbital program
microwave sounder

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