Weather Radar – precipitation, cloud sctructure.

Equipment description: X Band dual polarization Meteorological Radar
Responsible:
Mathew R. Schwaller - NASA - mathew.r.schwaller@nasa.gov
Walter A. Petersen - NASA-MSFC - walt.petersen@nasa.gov
Carlos Morales – USP - morales@model.iag.usp.br
Carlos Angelis – INPE - carlos.angelis@cptec.inpe.br
Izabelly Carvalho da Costa – INPE – izabelly.costa@cptec.inpe.br

Radiosondes – temperature, humidity and wind profiles.

Equipment description: Digicora III – Radiosonde (RS 92) 4 launchings per day, at 00 06 12 18 UTC and during the Airplane flights.
Responsible:
Gilberto F. Fisch – CTA - gfisch@iae.cta.br

Anemometric Tower: wind speed and direction and meteorological ground station.

Equipment description: 70 m with 6 height leves and meteorological ground station.
Responsible:
Gilberto F. Fisch – CTA - gfisch@iae.cta.br

Microwave Profiling Radiometer - MP3000.

Equipment description: Measurement: Surface-based passive microwave and infrared remote sensing at 35 Channels (Frequency: 22.00 – 30.00 GHz and 51.00 – 59.00 GHz). Surface sensor (Temperature, Relative Humidity, and Barometric Pressure). Temperature, relative, cloud liquid water, water vapor profiles. Time-resolution: 2-6 minutes .
Responsible:
Luiz Augusto Machado – INPE - luiz.machado@cptec.inpe.br
Alan James P. Calheiros – INPE - alan.calheiros@cptec.inpe.br

LIDAR – backscaterring coefficient.

Equipment description: Lidar Raman System 2 channels: 532nm and 607nm (only night period).
Time resolution: 0.2s - about 1.1min average
Spatial Resolution: 7.5m vertical Output: Lidar signal (RAW data), backscatter coefficient (post processing) .
Responsible:
Maria Paulete - INPE – Maria.paulete@cptec.inpe.br
Glauber Mariano - INPE – glaubermariano@cptec.inpe.br

Disdrometer – THIES.

Equipment description: A disdrometer measures the size and fall speed of precipitation. A laser diode and some optics produce a parallel infrared light sheet of 0.75 mm thickness with a detection area of 20 x 228 mm2. When the precipitation particles fall through this beam, the receiving signal is reduced. The amplitude of the reduction is related to the size of the particles, and the duration of the reduction is related to the fall speed. Precipitation type is then determined from known statistics of particle size and velocity for the different precipitation types. A rough temperature constraint is also used; all precipitation above 9 °C is considered liquid (except hail) and all precipitation below –4 °C is solid. The output consists of many parameters, including 1- minute SYNOP, METAR codes, precipitation intensity and amount, and full particle size and velocity distributions.
Responsible:
Carlos Angelis – INPE - carlos.angelis@cptec.inpe.br
Izabelly Carvalho da Costa – INPE– izabelly.costa@cptec.inpe.br

Disdrometer Parsivel and JOSS - Rain Gauge.

Equipment description: Ott Inc. PARSIVEL Optical Laser Disdrometer, Joss Waldvogel Acoustic Impact Disdrometer Model RD 80.
Responsible:
Aly Tokay
Paul G. Bashor - Senior Disdrometer Technician/CSC – pgbashor@gmail.com

GPS (Global Positioning System).

Equipment description: A dual-frequency receiver for scientific applications, created specifically for reference stations and other high precision applications, with a capacity to collect the following observables  GPS L1 C/A, L2C, L1 e L2 with its 24 available channels.
Responsible:
David Adams - UEA / INPA - dave.k.adams@gmail.com
Luiz Fernando Sapucci - INPE - luiz.sapucci@cptec.inpe.br

VANT (Air Vehicle Unmanned) – pressure, temperature, humidity.

Equipment description: Direct measurement of humidity, temperature and pressure. Retrieval of Potential Temperatures and CLP height. Vertical range from 10 to 2000 m and horizontal range of 40km, measurement collected every second.
Responsible:
Reinaldo Silveira – SIMEPAR - rsilveira@simepar.br

Aircraft.

Equipment description:
Responsible:
Mathew R. Schwaller - NASA - mathew.r.schwaller@nasa.gov
Walter A. Petersen - NASA-MSFC - walt.petersen@nasa.gov
Alexandre Costa – UECE - alexandrearaujoc@gmail.com

Radiometer – ADMIRARI.

Equipment description: The Advanced Microwave RAdiometer for rain identification (ADMIRARI) is a multi-frequency, dual-polarized Microwave Radiometer.
Frequencies: 6 channels 10.7 GHz, 21.0 GHz and 36.5 GHz at vertical and horizontal polarization.
Steerable in azimuth (0 - 360 deg) and elevation (0 - 90 deg).
Measures Brightness Temperature at vertical and horizontal polarization, together with a Micro Rain Radar, 24.1 GHz, sensing to the same direction as the radiometer. Products: Integrated Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water Path and Rain Liquid Water Path over the observation angle.
Affilation: Meteorological Institut, University of Bonn, Germany.

Responsible:
Christian D. Kummerow - Colorado State University - kummerow@atmos.colorado.edu
Alessandro Battaglia - EOS-UNI Leicester - ab474@leicester.ac.uk
Pablo Saavedra Garfias - MIUB - pablosaa@uni-bonn.de