Measurements and Applications
Collects microwave radiance data that when combined with the CrIS data will permit calculation of atmospheric temperature and water vapour profiles.
Full Name
Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
Medium Heritage
Instrument Type
Atmospheric temperature and humidity sounders 
Geometry
Cross-track scanning
Instrument Technology
Absorption-band MW radiometer/spectrometer
Sampling
Sounding
Data Access
Open Access
Data Format
NetCDF-4, HDF5
Swath
2300 km
[Max Swath: 2300 km]
Waveband
Microwave: 22 bands, 23-184 GHz
Suomi NPP - Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (2011 - 2028) |
NPOESS-1 - National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System - 1 (2013 - 2020) |
| JPSS-1 - Joint Polar Satellite System - 1 (2017 - 2030) |
| NPOESS-5 - National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System - 4 (2018 - 2023) |
| NPOESS-3 - National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System - 3 (2018 - 2025) |
| JPSS-2 - Joint Polar Satellite System - 2 (2022 - 2030) |
QuickSounder - QuickSounder (2025 - 2028) |
| JPSS-4 - Joint Polar Satellite System - 4 (2027 - 2034) |
| JPSS-3 - Joint Polar Satellite System - 3 (2032 - 2039) |