New contracts between CNES and the labs were set up for the end of phase B of ScaRaB and Saphir; a permanent engineer position was also opened by CNRS. New engineers are joining (or will join soon) the technical teams…
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Following the GPM workshop, which was very successful in terms of participation and active discussions (including WCRP, ESA, EU, China, South-East asian countries), it was agreed that more contacts have to be established between GPM and Megha-Tropiques at different levels…
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A GPM (Global Precipitation Mission) international planning workshop was held in Tokyo, May 20-22. Megha-Tropiques was represented by G. Raju (ISRO), N. Paluch (Publications section of this site in PDF.
The project page has been enriched with the Pamphlet of the project in PDF describing the project. This document was a poster presentation previously shown during an official meeting Bangalore.
The ScaRaB instrument on Megha-Tropiques could partially fill a gap foreseen in the continuous measurement of the Earth radiative budget : the CERES instruments on TERRA and AQUA platforms are scheduled to stop at the latest in 2008, while the…
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