The Multichannel Cloud Radiometer (MCR) is an airborne passive radiometer originally developed by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) before transferring 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 for the retrieval of cloud properties such as cloud optical depth, cloud droplet sizes, cloud phase, and cloud temperature. 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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data center outside NASA
 NASA Earth Resources-2 Aircraft 58 Campaigns · 107 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 · 90 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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