Measurements and Applications
Capabilities of the AMR with the addition of an on-board calibrator for high stability wet-tropospheric path delay correction and a redesign with respect to AMR-C (i.e. the 3 high res MW radiometer channels at 90, 130 and 166 GHz are an integral subsystem of the instrument and not experimental as in AMR-C)
Full Name
Advanced Microwave Radiometer for Climate
Status
Approved
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging multi-spectral radiometers (passive microwave) 
Geometry
Nadir-viewing
Instrument Technology
Non-scanning MW radiometer
Sampling
Sounding
Resolution
21 km at 18.7 GHz, 17 km at 23.8 GHz, 15 km at 34 GHz baseline channels, and with 5 km for 90 GHz , 4 km for 130 Ghz and 2 km for 166 GHz for the higher frequency operational channels
[Best Resolution: 2m]
Swath
Nadir-only viewing associated to the CRISTAL IRIS altimeter
Waveband
Low Frequency MW radiometer channels at 18.7, 23.8 and 34 GHz. With additional operational high-frequency channels (90, 130, 166 GHz) for high resolution complementing the SAR mode of IRIS radar.
| MW (~0.1 cm - ~100 cm) |
| Ka-Band (26.5 to 40 GHz) |
| K-Band (18 to 26.5 GHz) |
Sentinel CRISTAL-A - Copernicus polaR Ice and Snow Topography ALtimeter - A (2028 - 2036) |
| Sentinel CRISTAL-B - Copernicus polaR Ice and Snow Topography ALtimeter - B (2033 - 2041) |
| S3NGT-A - Sentinel-3 Next Generation Topography A (2033 - 2041) |
| S3NGT-B - Sentinel-3 Next Generation Topography B (2035 - 2043) |