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The split window microwave radiometer (swmr) for hurricane wind speed measurement from space
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Swift, Calvin T. Black, P. G. |
| Copyright Year | 1992 |
| Description | The monitoring of hurricanes demands considerable resources each year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Even with the extensive use of satellite and airborne probing of those storms, there is still much uncertainty involved in predicting landfall for timely evacuation of people subject to the threat. The concept of the Split Window Microwave Radiometer (SWMR) is to add an additional capability of remotely measuring surface winds to hopefully improve prediction capabilities or at least define the severity of the storm while it is far from land. Some of the present science and observational needs are addressed in this report as are remote sensing limitations which impact the design of a minimal system which can be launched into low earth orbit by a low cost launch system. This study has concluded that wind speed and rain rate maps of hurricanes can be generated with an X-Band radiometer system with an antenna whose aperture is 2 m on a side. |
| File Size | 1331425 |
| Page Count | 38 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19930010798 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5gb7106x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1992-07-27 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Microwave Radiometers Rain Low Earth Orbits Ground Wind Weather Forecasting Superhigh Frequencies Wind Velocity Satellite Observation Hurricanes Velocity Measurement Remote Sensing Cyclogenesis Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
