
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission-Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere
Atmospheric Composition, Weather
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- Deployment
1999-01-07 1999-02-28 - 5
- Platforms
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- Data Products
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
N: 10°S
S: 14°S
W: 66°W
E: 58°W
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