Measurements and Applications
Humidity soundings for climatological and atmospheric dynamics applications. The scan mirror motor failed on the 5th of February 2003.
Full Name
Humidity Sounder for Brazil
Status
No longer 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
HDF-EOS
Accuracy
Temperature: 1.0-1.2 K coverage of land and ocean surfaces, Humidity: 20%
Waveband
Microwave: 5 discreet channels in the range of 150-183 MHz
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