VAP : Microwave Radiometer (MWR)
Instrument Categories
Radiometric, Cloud Properties, Atmospheric Profiling
Output Products
- 1mwravg : Microwave Radiometer (MWR): brightness temps and water amounts, 1-minute avg
- 5mwravg : Microwave Radiometer (MWR): 5-minute average integrated vapor and liquid water
Primary Measurements
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant.
- Microwave narrowband brightness temperature
- Cloud liquid water
- Liquid water path
- Precipitable water
- Microwave radiation
Locations
- North Slope Alaska (NSA)
- Central Facility, Atqasuk AK (C2)
- Central Facility, Barrow AK (C1)
- Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
- Hillsboro, KS (Boundary) (B1)
- Lamont, OK (Extended, secondary) (E14)
- Morris, OK (Boundary) (B5)
- Purcell, OK (B6)
- Supplemental 2, Lamont, OK (S02)
- Vici, OK (Boundary) (B4)
- SHEBA (Surface HEat Budget of the Arctic) (SHB)
- Ice Station SHEBA (C1)
- Tropical Western Pacific (TWP)
- Central Facility, Darwin, Australia (C3)
- Central Facility, Manus I., PNG (C1)
- Central Facility, Nauru Island (C2)
- ARM Mobile Facility (FKB)
- Black Forest, Germany (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (GAN)
- Gan Airport, Gan Island, Maldives (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (GRW)
- Graciosa Island, Azores, Portugal (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (HFE)
- Shouxian, Anhui, China (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (NIM)
- Niamey, Niger (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (PGH)
- ARIES Observatory, Nainital, Uttarkhand, India (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (PYE)
- Point Reyes, CA (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (SBS)
- Steamboat Springs CO, Thunderhead Lodge (S1)
- Steamboat Springs CO, Valley Site (M1)
