PATH
Field Campaigns
The Precipitation and All-Weather Temperature and Humidity Mission would be designed to observe and improve understanding and modeling of hurricanes, severe weather and related hydrology-cycle processes:
- N. Atlantic hurricanes
- CONUS severe storms
- E. Pacific hurricanes
- Tropical moisture transport
- Oceanic and continental atmospheric processes
- Diurnal cycles
As defined by the NRC Decadal Survey, PATH is currently a third-tier mission, set for a possible launch sometime between 2016 and 2020. It will be a medium size mission and carry an microwave array spectrometer (GeoSTAR is a possible candidate for this).
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|  This image shows ways that a PATH mission carrying a microwave array spectrometer could contribute to the research community. | |
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Additional information is available on the PATH Fact Sheet (PDF, 1.4 MB).
