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Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission-Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere

Atmospheric Composition, Weather

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The Campaign

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission-Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere (TRMM-LBA) was a NASA field campaign that studied the characteristics of tropical convective systems to validate observations from the TRMM satellite. TRMM-LBA consisted of one deployment across Brazil and the southwest Amazon Basin from January to February 1999. NASA ER-2 was equipped with remote sensors such as the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR), Lightning Instrument Package (LIP), Millimeter-Wave Imaging Radiometer (MIR), and MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) to characterize the vertical structure of precipitation and convective systems. In situ measurements of cloud microphysics were collected on the University of North Dakota (UND) Citation aircraft. Ground-based observations from radars, rain gauges, radiosondes, and lightning detection networks were also collected.

TRMM/Brazil

1999-01-07 — 1999-02-28

Brazil, Southwest Amazon basin
austral summer, wet

N: 10°S

S: 14°S

W: 66°W

E: 58°W

Additional Notes

PRECIPITATION
PRECIPITATION PROPERTIES
TROPICAL CONVECTION
CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS
CLOUDS
CLOUD PROPERTIES
CLOUD MICROPHYSICS
RADAR
SATELLITE VALIDATION
TRMM
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Events

1 Deployment
1 IOP
2 Significant Events
20002001

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10.5067/TRMMLBA/AMPR/DATA101External Link
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NASA
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Steven Rutledge
Bob Rilling

GHRCExternal Link

NSF
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