Measurements and Applications
Constellation to provide temperature/moisture sounding and cloud/precipitation imaging with rapid update.
Full Name
Microwave Spectrometer (TROPICS)
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) 
Geometry
Cross-track scanning
Instrument Technology
Absorption-band MW radiometer/spectrometer
Sampling
Sounding
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
HDF
Resolution
Moisture: 25 km average across the swath; Temperature: 40 km average across the swath
[Best Resolution: 17000m]
Swath
2000 km
[Max Swath: 2000 km]
Waveband
Microwave: 90 to 206 GHz
TROPICS Pathfinder - Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) Pathfinder (2021 - 2023) |
TROPICS - Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) (2023 - 2025) |