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Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) ALOFT

Published by NASA/MSFC/GHRC | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: August 10, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-08-06
The Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) ALOFT dataset consists of brightness temperature measurements collected by the Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer (AMPR) onboard the NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft. AMPR provides multi-frequency microwave imagery, with high spatial and temporal resolution for deriving cloud, precipitation, water vapor, and surface properties. These measurements were taken during the Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly’s Eye Geostationary Lightning Mapper Simulator and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (ALOFT) field campaign. ALOFT aimed to study terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) and gamma-ray glows in thunderstorms and to validate observations from the International Space Station Lightning Imaging Sensor (ISS LIS) and the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). Data files are available from June 15, 2023, through July 31, 2023, in netCDF-4 format.

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