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- The MIPS2 is a mobile profiling system with several components and capabilities.
1. Radian: (915 MHz 5-beam Doppler profiling radar) collects Doppler spectra, calculates the spectrum moments, determines wind profiles at 1-60 min intervals, acquires, vertically-pointing data at 40-60 times resolution and 60, 105, or 210 m vertical resolution.
2. Radian: (2 kHz Doppler sodar) determines wind profiles w and backscatter power at 20 s time resolution and 25 m vertical resolution.
3. Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS): using the sodar as the acoustic source, the profile of T can be determined fro ~120 m to 0.5-1.5 km AGL, dependent on water vapor content, wind speed and turbulence.
4. Vailalla: (0.906 um lidar ceilometer) determines cloud base and provides a good estimate of the lidar backscatter (or extinction coefficient) from aerosols, clouds, and precipitation.
5. Radiometrics: (12 channel microwave radiometer) measures profiles of T, water vapor, cloud water, and column integrated values of water vapor and cloud water, at 10 min intervals up to 10 km, with highest vertical resolution oat low levels. This system also includes an infrared pyranometer, which measures cloud base temperature.
6. Zenith cloud imaging system: This will consist of an upward directed computer controlled, digital camera system that will provide visible images of the sky at user-selected levels.
7. Surface Instrumentation: T, relative humidity, wind, pressure, solar radiation, and rainfall rate, all at 1-s resolution, An improved aspiration system designed for rainy high wind conditions has been designed for accurate measurements of T and RH. More info at "http://www.atd.ucar.edu/dir_off/projects/2002/IHOPinst/mips_desc.pdf"
[Source: MIPS report]
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: MIPS Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: In Situ Land-based Platforms Platform_Series_or_Entity: WEATHER STATIONS/NETWORKS Short_Name: MIPS Long_Name: Mobile Integrated Profiling System End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: MIPS End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-12-12 Online_Resource: http://www.atd.ucar.edu/dir_off/projects/2002/IHOPinst/mips_desc.pdf Sample_Image: http://www.ucar.edu/communications/newsreleases/2003/mipspayload.small.jpg End_Group
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