Precipitation, Surface
1. Fuzhong Weng
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The MSPPS project is dedicated to the retrieval of near-real-time operational surface and precipitation products using antenna temperatures from the AMSU-A and AMSU-B instruments on board NOAA's KLM series polar orbiting satellites. This project has advanced from 5 products at its Day-1 phase to 9 products at the Day-2 phase. The current Day-2 MSPPS products include: total precipitable water, cloud liquid water, rain rate, snow cover, sea ice concentration, ice-water path, emissivity, and land surface temperature. The MSPPS geophysical products depicted on this web site are Day-2 products undergoing extensive validation. The algorithms are also under continuing development. NOAA-15 (or NOAA-K), which was launched on May 13, 1998, is the first in the series to support microwave instruments, AMSU-A and AMSU-B, for the generation of hydrological products in cloudy regions where visible and infrared instruments have decreased capability. NOAA-16 (or NOAA-L) was launched on September 21, 2000, and NOAA-M is scheduled to be launched in December 2001.
Web site: http://www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/corp/scsb/mspps/
