SATELLITE INSTRUMENTATION

Relevant Resources

1. TRMM home page
2. CIRA 3.9 micron near Infrared channel tutorial
3. CIMSS 6.7 micron water vapor tutorial
4. Sounding lecture given by Melanie Wetzel - lots of great imagery on sounder products
5. Tutorial on the GOES Sounder
6. Imager & Sounder Products
   • Sea Surface Temperature from Johns Hopkins Univeristy Applied Physics Laboratory
   • Real time sounder product data from CIMMS

Index of Topics

• GOES Imager
• GOES Imager - Visible
• GOES Imager - Visible continued
• GOES Imager - water vapor
• GOES Imager - 10.7 microns
• GOES Imager - 12.0 microns
• GOES Imager - 3.9 microns
  • Introduction
  • satellite receives both solar and IR
  • emissivity properties
  • reflective properties
  • subpixal response
  • summary of 3.9 characteristics
• POES Imager on the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
• GOES Sounder:
  • GOES Sounder - Introduction
  • weighting functions
  • sounder spectra
  • vertical profiles
  • derived products
  • impact on operational models
• Summary of satellite instrumentation concepts

last updated: 04/04/07