TROPICS06 L2B Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimate (TCIE) Algorithm V1.0

Description

The "Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats" (TROPICS) mission has a goal of providing nearly all-weather observations of three-dimensional temperature and humidity, as well as cloud ice and precipitation horizontal structure, at high temporal resolution to conduct high-value science investigations of tropical cyclones. The mission comprises a constellation of five identical Space Vehicles (SVs) conforming to the 3U form factor and hosting a passive microwave spectrometer payload. Each SV hosts an identical high-performance spectrometer named the TROPICS Millimeter-wave Sounder (TMS) that will provide temperature profiles using seven channels near the 118.75-GHz oxygen absorption line, water vapor profiles using three channels near the 183-GHz water vapor absorption line, imagery in a single channel near 90 GHz for precipitation measurements (when combined with higher resolution water vapor channels), and a single channel near 205 GHz that is more sensitive to cloud-sized ice particles. The TROPICS Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimate algorithm (TCIE), developed at the University of Wisconsin/CIMSS that uses native microwave brightness temperatures, estimates two primary TC variables: Minimum Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) and Maximum Sustained Winds (MSW). The TROPICS TCIE uses the brightness temperature perturbation of two temperature sounding channels (Ch. 6 and Ch. 7) and one channel from the moisture sounding channel (Ch. 1) along with ancillary information from the TC working best track file and the CIMSS ARCHER algorithm (eye size information) to estimate the TC intensity. This validated TCIE data release starts in June 2023 for the constellation CubeSats, and August 2021 for the TROPICS-01/Pathfinder.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGBGDF4SI8QDS
34 TROPICS_Mission.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/images/TROPICS_Mission.png
21 Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/TROPICS06TCIEL2B_1.0.html
21 Access the data via HTTPS https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/TROPICS_L2B/TROPICS06TCIEL2B.1.0/
21 Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. https://disc2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/TROPICS_L2B/TROPICS06TCIEL2B.1.0/contents.html
21 Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=TROPICS06TCIEL2B_1.0
33 TROPICS User Guide https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS_UserGuide_base_Sept2023.pdf
21 TROPICS Mission Page https://tropics.ll.mit.edu/CMS/tropics/Mission-Overview
33 TROPICS06L2B README https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/TROPICS/TROPICS-01_03_05_06_TCIE_L2b_Validated_Release_README_Nov2024.pdf

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  • spectral-engineering
  • microwave
  • earth-science

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