Measurements and Applications
Temperature sounding in nearly all weather conditions.
Full Name
Micro-Wave Temperature Sounder
Status
No longer operational
Instrument Agencies
Maturity
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
L-1 data: HDF 5.0
Waveband
50.3 GHz, 53.6 GHz, 54.94 GHz, 57.29 GHz
FY-3A - FY-3A Polar-orbiting Meteorological Satellite (2008 - 2018) |
| FY-3B - FY-3B Polar-orbiting Meteorological Satellite (2010 - 2020) |