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Overview

The Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) operates from the NASA ER-2 aircraft. For the LBA campaign, overflights of the Amazon River basin allowed direct comparison of in situ ground based radars and rainguage networks to the TRMM instruments and the ER-2 instrumentation over a large land area. These comparisons assist in validating TRMM sensor data over data-sparse tropical land regions and calibrating the TRMM radars and imagers.

The Instrument

AMPR remotely senses passive microwave signatures of geophysical parameters from an airborne platform. The instrument is a low noise system which can provide multifrequency microwave imagery with high spatial and temporal resolution. AMPR data are collected at a combination of frequencies (10.7, 19.35, 37.1, and 85.5 GHz) well suited to the study of rain cloud systems, and useful to studies of various ocean and land surface processes.

Data Access

TRMM LBA data from the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) are available from the Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) at NASA Marshall.

GHRC User Services Office
Global Hydrology and Climate Center
977 Explorer Blvd.
Huntsville, Alabama 35806
Phone: 256-922-5932
Fax: 256-922-5859
E-mail:ghrc@eos.nasa.gov

Contacts

Additional details on the AMPR data sets can be obtained from the GHRC User Services Office, from Ms. Robbie Hood (Principal Investigator), or from Mr. Frank LaFontaine (Co-Investigator). To contact Ms. Hood or Mr. LaFontaine:

Ms. Robbie Hood
Global Hydrology and Climate Center
977 Explorer Blvd.
Huntsville, Alabama 35806
Phone: 256-922-5959
Fax: 256-922-5723
E-mail: robbie.hood@msfc.nasa.gov

Mr. Frank LaFontaine
Global Hydrology and Climate Center
977 Explorer Blvd.
Huntsville, Alabama 35806
Phone: 256-922-5796
Fax: 256-922-5723
E-mail: frank.lafontaine@msfc.nasa.gov

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