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AQUA-INSTRUMENTS ONBOARD

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  • The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)- This instrument will be centred on measuring humidity, temperature, cloud properties, and the amounts of greenhouse gases throughout the atmosphere.

  • The Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A)-This instrument will obtain temperature profiles in the upper atmosphere (especially the stratosphere) and will provide a cloud-filtering capability for tropospheric temperature observations.

  • The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES)-This instrument will measure the Earth’s total thermal radiation budget, and, in combination with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, will provide detailed information about clouds.

  • The Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB)-The HSB is the instrument in the AIRS/AMSU-A/HSB suite that will allow humidity measurements even under conditions of heavy cloudiness and haze.

  • MODIS-MODIS is a 36-band spectroradiometer measuring visible and infrared radiation and obtaining data that will be used to derive products ranging from vegetation, land surface cover, and ocean chlorophyll fluorescence, to cloud and aerosol properties, fire occurrence, snow cover on the land, and sea ice cover on the oceans.

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IMAGE SOURCE 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(satellite)
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