MWR: Microwave radiometer for the Juno mission to Jupiter

MA Janssen, JE Oswald, ST Brown, S Gulkis… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Juno Microwave Radiometer (MWR) is a six-frequency scientific instrument
designed and built to investigate the deep atmosphere of Jupiter. It is one of a suite of …

SMAP L-band microwave radiometer: Instrument design and first year on orbit

JR Piepmeier, P Focardi, KA Horgan… - … on Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) L-band microwave radiometer is a conical
scanning instrument designed to measure soil moisture with 4% volumetric accuracy at 40 …

On the “Cal‐Mode” correction to TOPEX satellite altimetry and its effect on the global mean sea level time series

BD Beckley, PS Callahan… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Comparison of satellite altimetry against a high‐quality network of tide gauges
suggests that sea‐surface heights from the TOPEX altimeter may be biased by±5 mm, in an …

A reassessment of global and regional mean sea level trends from TOPEX and Jason‐1 altimetry based on revised reference frame and orbits

BD Beckley, FG Lemoine, SB Luthcke… - Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Mean sea level trends from TOPEX and Jason‐1 altimeter data are recomputed using
unified geophysical modeling and the new ITRF2005 terrestrial reference frame for the …

Reducing the uncertainty in the satellite altimetry estimates of global mean sea level trends using highly stable water vapor climate data records

A Barnoud, B Picard, B Meyssignac… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The global mean sea level (GMSL) has risen by 3.3±0.2 mm. yr− 1 (68% confidence level)
over 1993–2021. The wet troposphere correction (WTC) used to compute the altimetry …

Assessment of the Jason-2 extension to the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 sea-surface height time series for global mean sea level monitoring

BD Beckley, NP Zelensky, SA Holmes… - Marine …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The Jason-2 (OSTM) follow-on mission to Jason-1 provides for the continuation of global
and regional mean sea level estimates along the ground-track of the initial phase of the …

The harvest experiment: calibration of the climate data record from TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and the ocean surface topography mission

BJ Haines, SD Desai, GH Born - Marine Geodesy, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
We present a 17-year calibration record of precise (Jason-class) spaceborne altimetry from
a California offshore oil platform (Harvest). Our analyses indicate that the sea-surface-height …

Towards development of a consistent orbit series for TOPEX, Jason-1, and Jason-2

FG Lemoine, NP Zelensky, DS Chinn, DE Pavlis… - Advances in space …, 2010 - Elsevier
The TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 set of altimeter data now provide a time series
of synoptic observations of the ocean that span nearly 17years from the launch of TOPEX in …

The challenges in long-term altimetry calibration for addressing the problem of global sea level change

LL Fu, BJ Haines - Advances in Space Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Long-term change of the global sea level resulting from climate change has become an
issue of great societal interest. The advent of the technology of satellite altimetry has …

Nanosatellites for earth environmental monitoring: The MicroMAS project

W Blackwell, G Allen, C Galbraith… - 2012 12th Specialist …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Micro-sized Microwave Atmospheric Satellite (MicroMAS) is a 3D cubesat (30× 10× 10
cm, 4kg) hosting a passive microwave spectrometer operating near the 118.75-GHz oxygen …