Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D): Risk Reduction for 6U-Class Nanosatellite Constellations

Steven C Reising1, Gaier Todd2, Christian D Kummerow3, V. V Chandrasekar4, Sharmila Padmanabhan5, Boon Lim6, Shannon Thomas Brown5, Susan C van den Heever3, Tristan L'Ecuyer7, Christopher S Ruf8, Zhengzhao Johnny Luo9, Stephen J Munchak10, Ziad S Haddad5 and Sid Ahmed Boukabara11, (1)Colorado State University, Microwave Systems Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Colorado State University, 1373 Campus, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Wisconsin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space, Ann Arbor, United States, (9)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)NOAA NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, United States