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TROPICS (EVI-3)  

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  • The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission will provide rapid-refresh microwave measurements (median refresh rate of 21 minutes for the baseline mission, 31 minutes for the threshold mission) over the tropics that can be used to observe the thermodynamics of the troposphere and precipitation structure for storm systems at the mesoscale and synoptic scale over the entire storm lifecycle. TROPICS comprises 12 CubeSats (fully compliant 4.0 kg 3U) in three low-Earth orbital planes. Each CubeSat will host a high-performance radiometer scanning across the satellite track at 30 RPM to provide temperature profiles using seven channels near the 118.75 GHz oxygen absorption line, water vapor profiles using 3 channels near the 183 GHz water vapor absorption line, imagery in a single channel near 90 GHz for precipitation measurements, and a single channel at 206 GHz for cloud ice measurements. (Picture credit: MIT Lincoln Laboratory) More Information: https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/ (en)

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  • 2020-12-29 17:35:29.0 [sritz] Insert Concept add broader relation (TROPICS EVI-3 [09d6e6fb-4a00-460e-9c7e-bb5b311b9467,560809] - S - U [4eb1894b-35b4-406b-8864-944a42bc7702,547487]);
  • 2020-12-29 17:38:15.0 [sritz] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) mission will provide rapid-refresh microwave measurements (median refresh rate of 21 minutes for the baseline mission, 31 minutes for the threshold mission) over the tropics that can be used to observe the thermodynamics of the troposphere and precipitation structure for storm systems at the mesoscale and synoptic scale over the entire storm lifecycle. TROPICS comprises 12 CubeSats (fully compliant 4.0 kg 3U) in three low-Earth orbital planes. Each CubeSat will host a high-performance radiometer scanning across the satellite track at 30 RPM to provide temperature profiles using seven channels near the 118.75 GHz oxygen absorption line, water vapor profiles using 3 channels near the 183 GHz water vapor absorption line, imagery in a single channel near 90 GHz for precipitation measurements, and a single channel at 206 GHz for cloud ice measurements. (Picture credit: MIT Lincoln Laboratory) More Information: https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/ language code: en);
  • 2020-12-29 17:38:53.0 [sritz] update PrefLabel (TROPICS (EVI-3));

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/09d6e6fb-4a00-460e-9c7e-bb5b311b9467

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