Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (CoSMIR) IMPACTS V1

Description

The Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (CoSMIR) IMPACTS dataset consists of brightness temperature measurements collected by the Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (CoSMIR) flown onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft during the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field campaign. IMPACTS was a three-year sequence of winter season deployments conducted to study snowstorms over the U.S Atlantic coast. IMPACTS aimed to (1) Provide observations critical to understanding the mechanisms of snowband formation, organization, and evolution; (2) Examine how the microphysical characteristics and likely growth mechanisms of snow particles vary across snowbands; and (3) Improve snowfall remote sensing interpretation and modeling to significantly advance prediction capabilities. CoSMIR is a conical and cross-track scanning radiometer with frequencies centered at 50.3, 52.8, 89.0, 165.5, 183.31±1, 183.31±3, and 183.31±7 GHz. The brightness temperature data from CoSMIR are available from January 15, 2020 through February 28, 2022 in netCDF-4 format.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FIMPACTS%2FCOSMIR%2FDATA101
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/portal/ghrc/search?q=cosmirimpacts&ghrccloud%2Fdata%2F=
21 IMPACTS Field Campaign Collection DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/IMPACTS/DATA101
21 NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: ER-2 High-Altitude Airborne Science Aircraft https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-046-DFRC.html
21 IMPACTS Field Campaign Information https://espo.nasa.gov/impacts/content/IMPACTS
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/impacts/COSMIR/doc/cosmirimpacts_dataset.pdf
21 Airborne CoSMIR Observations Between 50 and 183 GHz over Snow-Covered Sierra Mountains https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2006.885410
21 A comparison of Near Concurrent Measurements from the SSMIS and CoSMIR for some Selected Channels over the Frequency Range of 50-183 GHz https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2007.904038
21 Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0246.1
21 IMPACTS Project Home Page https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/impacts
21 IMPACTS Field Campaign Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/investigation-microphysics-and-precipitation-atlantic-coast-threatening-snowstorms
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Observations of Storm Signatures by the Recently Modified Conical Scanning Millimeter-Wave Imaging Radiometer https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2012.2200690
21 Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (CoSMIR) https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/instrument/CoSMIR
21 Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast Threatening Snowstorms (Impacts): The 2022 Deployment https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9883693

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  • infrared-wavelengths
  • spectral-engineering
  • earth-science

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