HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM SENTINEL (HS3) HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER (HIRAD) V1

Description

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) was collected by the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD), which was a multi-band passive microwave radiometer operating between 4-6.6 GHz. It used a novel interferometric aperture synthesis technique to produce high resolution wide swath observations without any mechanical scanning of the antenna. The instrument was designed to measure ocean surface wind speed in tropical storms and hurricanes. Developed in collaboration between scientists and engineers at National Aeronautics and Space Administration Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA MSFC), the University of Central Florida, and the University of Michigan, the instrument was first flown on a NASA high altitude aircraft in the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Experiment in 2010 and was then flown for the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) in 2012-2014.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 OPeNDAP server dataset access https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIRAD/data/
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FHS3%2FHIRAD%2FDATA201
21 NASA Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission https://espo.nasa.gov/missions/hs3/
33 HIRAD Data Format and Metadata Details https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIRAD/doc/HIRAD_data_hs3_2014.pdf
21 Field Campaign: Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/field-campaign-hurricane-and-severe-storm-sentinel-hs3
33 Hurricane Gonzalo HIRAD Wind Speed Readme https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIRAD/doc/readme_gonzaloFLT2014.pdf
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/projects/HS3
21 Assessing Wind and Rain in Hurricane Ingrid during Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Field Campaign https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/assessing-wind-and-rain-hurricane-ingrid-during-hurricane-and-severe-storm-sentinel
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=hs3hirad
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIRAD/doc/hs3hirad_dataset.pdf
21 Hurricane Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/hurricane
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/HIRAD/browse/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data

Tags

  • precipitation
  • oceans
  • atmosphere
  • weather-events
  • spectral-engineering
  • ocean-winds
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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