Tropical Cyclone Intensity (TCI) Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) V2.1

Description

The Tropical Cyclone Intensity (TCI) Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) dataset was created for the TCI field campaign from August 30, 2015 through October 23, 2015. The goal of the TCI field campaign was to improve the prediction of tropical cyclone (TC) intensity and structure change. The specific focus was to have an improved understanding of TC upper-level outflow layer processes and dynamics. These Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) data were obtained from the instrument onboard the NASA WB-57 aircraft flow on specific dates during the campaign. The data files include brightness temperature, rain rate, wind speed, and sea surface temperature estimates in netCDF-3 format, with corresponding browse imagery in PNG format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 A View of Tropical Cyclones from Above: The Tropical Cyclone Intensity Experiment https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0055.1
21 TCI Project Web Page https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/tci
21 Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) Data https://doi.org/10.5065/D6CF9NGC
21 Browse images illustrate the nature and coverage of the data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/tci/HIRAD/browse/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGHRC%2FHIRAD%2FDATA101
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=tcihirad
21 Recent improvements in Hurricane Imaging Radiometer’s brightness temperature image reconstruction https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2017.11.006
34 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/tci/HIRAD/browse/Joaquin/HIRAD_20151003T182400_20151003T184859_leg12.png
33 HURRICANE IMAGING RADIOMETER (HIRAD) PI Documentation https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/tci/HIRAD/doc/HIRAD_data_TCI2015_v2.1.pdf
21 The Hurricane Imaging Radiometer - An Octave Bandwidth Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422772
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/tci/HIRAD/doc/tcihirad_dataset.pdf
21 Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) Wind Speed Retrievals and Validation Using Dropsondes https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-17-0031.1
21 Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) Data Documentation https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/tci/HIRAD/doc/README-info-488_005.txt
21 Hurricane Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/hurricane

Tags

  • precipitation
  • climate-indicators
  • infrared-wavelengths
  • atmosphere
  • spectral-engineering
  • atmospheric-ocean-indicators
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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