The Multichannel Cloud Radiometer (MCR) is an airborne passive radiometer originally developed by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and later transferred to NCAR’s Research Aviation Facility (RAF). It operates across seven channels (0.640-10.9 μm) to measure radiance in the visible, near-infrared, and thermal infrared. These measurements are used to retrieve cloud properties, including cloud optical depth, cloud droplet size, cloud phase, and cloud temperature. The MCR has a field of view of 0.007 radians and a data sampling rate of 5000 samples per second.
Instrument Details
- Spectrometer/Radiometer
- Earth Science > Spectral/engineering > Visible Wavelengths > Visible RadianceEarth Science > Spectral/engineering > Infrared Wavelengths > Thermal InfraredEarth Science > Spectral/engineering > Infrared Wavelengths > Infrared RadianceEarth Science > Spectral/engineering > Infrared WavelengthsEarth Science > Spectral/engineering > Visible Wavelengths
- Land Surface
- 5000 Hz
- Variable
- 27.5-468.4 THz
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 NASA Earth Resources-2 Aircraft 63 Campaigns · 109 Instruments |  First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Regional Experiment 1986—1998 Central and Midwest United States, California Coast, Northwest Africa, Alaska 5 Deployments · 131 Data Products
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 C-130 Hercules 17 Campaigns · 96 Instruments | First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Regional Experiment 1986—1998 Central and Midwest United States, California Coast, Northwest Africa, Alaska 5 Deployments · 131 Data Products
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