A high-resolution Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler for tropical cyclones

The Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) has developed the Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (IWRAP) to improve the ability to nowcast and forecast extreme weather-events. This novel instrument is devoted to improve our knowledge in both the atmospheric boundary layer perturbances as well as the ocean surface winds, by providing both reflectivity and Doppler profiles simultaneously at C and Ku-band and at four incidence angles.