MEGHA-TROPIQUES Science and Applications
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Hosted by Space Applications Centre Ahmedabad, India January 21-23, 2009 Megha-Tropiques (‘Megha’ in Sanskrit means clouds and ‘Tropiques’ is the French word for tropics) is a joint ISRO and CNES (French Space Agency) science collaboration project.. The main objective of this mission is to understand the energy and hydrological cycle in tropics. This satellite will be placed in a unique orbit( 20o inclination and 867 km altitude), so as to obtain the highest coverage of the tropical region. The satellite will have four payloads: a passive microwave radiometer (MADRAS: 18.7GHz, 23.8GHz, 36.5GHz, 89GHz and 157GHz) to derive rainfall, water vapor, liquid water, ice and surface winds , a radiation budget sensor (ScaRaB: 0.5-0.7m, 0.2-4.0m, 0.2-200m and 10.5-12.5m) to estimate the radiation budget, a passive microwave sounder (SAPHIR: 6 channels around 183.31 GHz) and a GPS radio-occultation limb sounder for humidity profile. The primary goal of this conference will be to discuss how satellite data can be used to understand the variations in water vapor, clouds, liquid water, ice and radiation budget that occur in the tropics. The conference will have invited speakers as well as contributed papers. We welcome contributions from scientists all over the world. The conference website (http://www.mtconf2009.org ) provides more information about the conference, including the guidelines for submission of extended abstracts. All interested participants are requested to register through the conference website for receiving updates on the conference. |