BackForwardInstrument:  AOS Doppler Radar 

Instrument details
Acronym AOS Doppler Radar
Full name AOS Doppler Radar
Purpose Precipitation profiling and mapping with nadir doppler information for convective dynamics
Short description Ku-band (13.6 GHz) Doppler radar.
Background New development
Scanning Technique 255 km swath
Resolution 500 m vertical, 5 km horizontal
Coverage / Cycle Global coverage in 5.5 days
Mass Power Data Rate

 

Providing Agency JAXA
Instrument Maturity Flown on an R&D satellite
Utilization Period: TBD
Last update: 2023-10-31
Detailed characteristics
Satellites this instrument is flying on

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Instrument classification
  • Earth observation instrument
  • Active and radio-occultation sensor
  • Cloud and precipitation radar
WIGOS Subcomponents
  • Subcomponent 1
  • Precipitation radars and cloud radars
  • Precipitation radar and cloud radar
Mission objectives
Primary mission objectives
  • Precipitation (liquid or solid)
  • Precipitation intensity at surface (liquid or solid)
Evaluation of Measurements