National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)
Wide Swath Radar Altimeter
instrumentairborne instrumentIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- NOAA Boulder
Description
NOAA Wide Swath Radar Altimeter, carried on a NOAA P-3D Orion Hurricane Hunter aircraft to map ocean wave height, speed and direction and rain rate beneath hurricanes, with data sent in real time to National Hurricane Center forecasters.
Official page
https://psl.noaa.gov/technology/wide-swath-radar-altimeter/
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Details
- Keywords
- ocean wave mapping, hurricane hunter aircraft, sea surface topography, rain rate, real-time data link
- Instrument platform
- NOAA P-3D Orion Hurricane Hunter aircraft
- Associated entity
- NOAA
- Deployment platform
- aircraft