AMSU-A A Spot

AMSU-A

 

AMSU-A A Spot
AMSU-A A Spot

The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) is designed to measure global atmospheric temperature profiles.

Last Updated

08 December 2022

Published on

05 May 2020

It provides information on atmospheric water in all of its forms (with the exception of small ice particles, which are transparent at microwave frequencies). AMSU-A provides information even in cloudy conditions.


What is AMSU-A?

AMSU-A is a multi-channel microwave radiometer which measure scene radiances in 15 discreet frequency channels (23-90GHz).

At each channel frequency, the antenna beamwidth is a constant 3.3 degrees (at the half power point). AMSU-A is part of the ATOVS package, together with MHS and HIRS. AMSU-A scanning is synchronized with MHS and IASI scanning.

 

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