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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - NOAA-16 -

Full Name

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - 16

Status

Mission complete

Mission Agencies

NOAA

Launch Date

21 Sep 2000

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

09 Jun 2014

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

26536 (TLE)

International Designator

2000-055A

Orbit Type

Sun-synchronous

Orbit Period

102 minutes

Orbit Sense

Ascending

Orbit Inclination

98.8 deg

Orbit Altitude

870 km

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

13:54

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

Meteorology, agriculture and forestry, environmental monitoring, climatology, physical oceanography, volcanic eruption monitoring, ice and snow cover, total ozone studies, space environment, solar flux analysis, search and rescue.

Mission Measurements

Category	Parameter	Instrument(s)
Atmosphere	Aerosols	AVHRR/3
	Atmospheric Humidity Fields	AMSU-A, AMSU-B, ATOVS (HIRS/3 + AMSU + AVHRR/3), HIRS/3
	Atmospheric Winds	AMSU-B
	Cloud type, amount and cloud top temperature	AMSU-A, AMSU-B, ATOVS (HIRS/3 + AMSU + AVHRR/3), AVHRR/3, HIRS/3
	Cloud particle properties and profile	AMSU-A, AMSU-B, HIRS/3
	Liquid water and precipitation rate	AMSU-A, AMSU-B, ATOVS (HIRS/3 + AMSU + AVHRR/3), AVHRR/3
	Ozone	ATOVS (HIRS/3 + AMSU + AVHRR/3), HIRS/3, SBUV/2
	Radiation budget	AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, HIRS/3, SBUV/2
	Trace gases (excluding ozone)	ATOVS (HIRS/3 + AMSU + AVHRR/3), HIRS/3
	Atmospheric Temperature Fields	AMSU-A, ATOVS (HIRS/3 + AMSU + AVHRR/3), HIRS/3
Gravity and Magnetic Fields	Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements	SEM (POES)
Land	Albedo and reflectance	AVHRR/3
	Soil moisture	AMSU-A
	Vegetation	AVHRR/3
	Surface temperature (land)	AMSU-A, AVHRR/3, HIRS/3
	Multi-purpose imagery (land)	AVHRR/3
Ocean	Ocean surface winds	AMSU-A
	Surface temperature (ocean)	AVHRR/3, HIRS/3
	Multi-purpose imagery (ocean)	AVHRR/3
Snow & Ice	Snow cover, edge and depth	AMSU-A, AMSU-B, AVHRR/3
	Sea ice cover, edge and thickness	AMSU-A, AMSU-B, AVHRR/3

Mission Instruments

A-DCS3 - A-DCS3

AMSU-A - Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A

AMSU-B - Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B

ATOVS (HIRS/3 + AMSU + AVHRR/3) - Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder

AVHRR/3 - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3

HIRS/3 - High Resolution Infra-red Sounder/3

NOAA Comms - Communications package for NOAA

S&R (NOAA) - Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking

SBUV/2 - Solar Backscattter Ultra-Violet Instrument/2

SEM (POES) - Space Environment Monitor

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