NASA NTRS · 20100017715
CloudSat: the Cloud Profiling Radar Mission
Abstract
The Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR), the primary science instrument of the CloudSat Mission, is a 94-GHz nadir-looking radar that measures the power backscattered by clouds as a function of distance from the radar. This instrument will acquire a global time series of vertical cloud structure at 500-m vertical resolution and 1.4-km horizontal resolution. CPR will operate in a short-pulse mode and will yield measurements at a minimum detectable sensitivity of -28 dBZ.
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Im, Eastwood, Durden, Stephen L., Tanelli, Simone. 2006-10-16. CloudSat: the Cloud Profiling Radar Mission. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20100017715
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