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Ground Instruments
Instrument Name Acronym Investigators Type Product Description
Autonomous Parsivel Units  

PI:
W. Petersen
(NASA MSFC)

  

 
Met One Rain Gauge Pairs  

PI:
W. Petersen
(NASA MSFC)

D. Wolff

 

  
Radiosonde  

PI:
M. Jensen
(BNL)

Radiosonde

  
Surface Bowen Ratio (tower)  

PI:
B. Orr
(DOE)

  

 
Two-dimensional Video Disdrometers 2DVD

PI:
W. Petersen
(NASA MSFC)

Disdrometer

 
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RADARS
Instrument Name Acronym Investigators Type Product Description
DOE C-band Dual-polarized radar  

PI:
P. Kollias
(DOE)

  

 
DOE X-band Radar Network  

PI:
P. Kollias
(DOE)

  

 

Ka/W band scanning/vertically pointing radars

  

PI:
P. Kollias
(DOE)

 

 
NASA Dual-Frequency Dual-Polarized Doppler Radar D3R

PI: 
Matthew Schwaller
(NASA MSFC)

Manuel Vega

  

 
NASA NPOL S-band Dual-polarimetric Doppler radar  

PI:
J. Gerlach
(NASA WFF)

  

 
NOAA AERI IR Radiometer  

PI:
D. Turner
(NOAA)

  

 

NOAA-ESRL S-band profiler/449 MHz Profiler

  

PI:
C. Williams
(NOAA)

 

 
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Aircraft
Instrument Name Acronym Investigators Type Product Description
 
Citation

Cloud Microphysics Suite

  

PI:
A. Heymsfield (NCAR)

M.Poellot
(UND)

  

 
 
ER-2
Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer AMPR

PI:
Walt Petersen
(NASA MSFC)

 PMW Radiometer

 

Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer

 CoSMIR

PI:
James Wang
(NASA GSFC)

 PMW Radiometers

 
High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler HIWRAP

PI:
Gerry Heymsfield
(NASA GSFC)

  

 
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Spacecraft
Instrument Name Acronym Investigators Type Product Description
 
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)

GOES VIS/IR

 GOES VIS/IR

 

  

 
 
NASA A-Train (CloudSat, Calipso, Aqua)

Combined cloud-radar, passive microwave, lidar

  

 

  

 
 
NOAA Polar Orbiters
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit AMSU-a/b

 

  

 
Microwave Humidity Sounder MHS      
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager SSM/I      
 
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Satellite

Precipitation Radar

 PR

 

 

 
TRMM Microwave Imager TMI    
Visible Infrared Scanner VIRS    
Lightning Imaging Sensor LIS    
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