Measurements and Applications
Capabilities of the AMR with the addition of a 2nd beam to provide wet-tropospheric path delay correction within both swaths of the primary radar instrument (KaRIn)
Full Name
AMR-S Two-Beam Microwave Radiometer
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
Non-scanning MW radiometer
Sampling
Sounding
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
NetCDF-4
Resolution
41.6 km at 18.7 GHz, 36.1 km at 23.8 GHz, 22.9 km at 34 GHz baseline channels
[Best Resolution: 22m]
Swath
two nadir-looking beams complementing the 120Km KaRIn radar altimeter swath
Accuracy
Total water vapour: 0.2 g/sq cm, Brightness temperature: 0.15 K for each of the two beams
Waveband
Microwave: 18.7, 23.8 and 34 GHz.
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