The Configurable Scanning Submillimeter-wave Instrument/Radiometer (CoSSIR) is an airborne imaging radiometer designed to measure ice clouds. It measures brightness temperature across 16 channels in the 183-874 GHz range. These measurements can determine ice cloud properties, water vapor profiles, and snowfall rates. CoSSIR has a surface footprint of 1.5 km at nadir at an altitude of 20 km. It has a scan cycle of 4.6 seconds.
Instrument Details
- Spectrometer/Radiometer
- Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Water Vapor ProfilesEarth Science > Spectral/engineering > Microwave > Brightness TemperatureEarth Science > Atmosphere > Clouds > Tropospheric/high-level Clouds (observed/analyzed) > Cirrus/systems > Cirrus Cloud Systems
- Full Column Profile, Troposphere
- 4.6 s
- 1.5 km
- 183-874 GHz
- Currently unavailble
Rachael Kroodsma
Rachael Kroodsma
GSFC
NASA
Currently unavailable
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