The microwave temperature and humidity profiler instrument airborne shakeout performance

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has developed a new airborne sensor, the Microwave Temperature and Humidity Profiler (MTHP), by adding a 183 GHz receiver to the current Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP). The instrument scans ahead of the aircraft flight path sampling at multiple angles, allowing for atmospheric retrievals above and below the aircraft, to generate vertical profiles. Liquid water path and precipitable water vapor can also be retrieved above the aircraft in the absence of scattering. The instrument has had shakeout flights on the GII and C130 in 2016. In March 2017, the MTHP will be modified to be installed in a standard PMS canister to fly on the GV.