180 Tasked flight hours (~20 flights) for production SFMR
~190 Research flight hours on N43 and N42 (IFEX/RAINEX
+ Ocean Winds)
Need for field calibration procedure identified and executed
Low wind, high rainrate problem identified: an
issue for Arlene, Cindy, Gert, Irene calibration flights
High ÔbiasÕ identified from sonde analysis
SFMR algorithm extended to extreme winds: ² 80 m/s-
Quadratic relation between surface emissivity and
wind speed replaced with low wind quadratic plus high wind
linear fit.