DEMONSTRAGING THE IMPACT OF RAPID REPEAT PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS FROM THE GLOBAL HAWK: IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE SMALL-SAT OR GEO MISSIONS

摘要

Small satellites offer the capability to deploy constellations of instruments to monitor the time evolution of dynamic weather phenomenon through rapid repeat observations. There are several planned missions that employ passive microwave sensors to study precipitation and storm dynamics, including TEMPEST and TROPICS. Recently, the HAMSR sensor on the Global Hawk aircraft was used to acquire rapid repeat observations of tropical cyclones as a part of the 2016 NOAA SHOUT campaign. This paper describes these time resolved observations of the storm and offers perspectives for these future missions.