The HAMSR instrument is a 25 channel cross-track microwave sounder developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory under the IIP-98 program. The instrument was recently upgraded under the NASA AITT program in 2008 to deploy on the Global Hawk UAV. The instrument now has state-of-the-art radiometric performance and the capability to process and display both brightness temperature imagery and derived ...

We have used a 50.4 ksec Chandra observation to examine the galaxy cluster Abell 115 (z=0.1971). The X-ray surface brightness distribution shows a merger of 2 sub-clusters with substantial off-axis motion. The northern sub-cluster moves toward the southwest and exhibits a strong X-ray surface brightness gradient toward this direction as well as a “fan” of X-ray bright Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM)...

0019-1035/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.11.034 * Corresponding author. Fax: +86 21 65643902. E-mail address: [email protected] (Y.-Q. Jin). In China’s first lunar exploration project, Chang-E 1 (CE-1), a multi-channel microwave radiometer was aboard the satellite, with the purpose of measuring microwave brightness temperature (Tb) from lunar surface and surve...

Snow provides large seasonal storage of freshwater, and information about the distribution 6 of snow mass as Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) is important for hydrological planning and detecting 7 climate change impacts. Large regional disagreements remain between estimates from reanalyses, 8 remote sensing and modelling. Assimilating passive microwave information improves SWE estimates 9 in many re...

Snow provides large seasonal storage of freshwater, and information about the distribution 6 of snow mass as Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) is important for hydrological planning and detecting 7 climate change impacts. Large regional disagreements remain between estimates from reanalyses, 8 remote sensing and modelling. Assimilating passive microwave information improves SWE estimates 9 in many re...

in this research, the chemimechanical pulps (cmp) with different yields were prepared by using the mixtures of constant raw materials comprising iranian hardwood species such as hornbeam (44%), poplar (31%), maple (15%) and salix (10%). this research was aiming to study cmp pulp properties variations in yields lower than standard limit (85%). four different yields (84, 80, 73 and 67%) were achi...