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The Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB) was an instrument launched on NASA's Earth Observing System satellite Aqua launched in May 2002. It was a four-channel passive microwave radiometer, with one channel at 150 GHz and three channels at 183 GHz. It was very similar in design to the AMSU-B instrument, except it lacked the 89 GHz surface sounding channel. It was intended to study profiles of atmospheric water vapor and provide improved input data to the cloud-clearing algorithms in the Unified AIRS Retrieval Suite, but the scan mirror motor failed on February 5, 2003. It worked with the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder and AMSU-A to form the AIRS Sounding Suite. HSB was manufactured by Matra Marconi Space, Limited (MMS), in the United Kingdom under a contract with the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, INPE.

Instrument Characteristics

Heritage: AMSU-B
Swath: 1650 km
Spatial resolution: 13.5 km horizontal at nadir
Mass: 51 kg
Duty cycle: 100%
Power: 56 W
Data rate: 4.2 kbit/s
Field of View: ± 49.5 degrees cross-track
Instrument Instantaneous Field of View: 1.1 degrees circular

Table 1: Radiometric characteristics of the HSB

Channel Number	AMSU-B Channel Number	Frequency (GHz)	Bandwidth (at nadir)	Instrument Sensitivity NEDT (K)
1	16	89.9 ± 0.9	DELETED	DELETED
2	17	150 ± 0.9	4000	0.68
3	18	183.31 ± 1.00	2x500	0.57
4	19	183.31 ± 3.00	2x1000	0.39
5	20	183.31 ± 7.00	2x2000	0.30

History

HSB stopped scanning suddenly and without warning over the Pacific Ocean February 5, 2003 at 21:39 UTC. The most likely cause is an electrical failure in the scan electronics. By design AMSU-B and therefore HSB had very limited hardware redundancy and software update capability.

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