Current and Future Earth Science Impact of Global Measurements from Microwave Atmospheric Sounders on Closely-Spaced CubeSats: The Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) Mission

Steven C Reising1, Todd Gaier2, Shannon Thomas Brown3, Christian Kummerow4, Wesley K Berg1, V Chandrasekar5, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Boon Lim6, Cate Heneghan6, Richard Schulte7, Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan1, Yuriy Goncharenko8, Matthew Pallas9, Doug Laczkowski9, Austin Bullard9 and Jeff Adams9, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Colorado State Univ, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (9)Blue Canyon Technologies, Boulder, CO, United States