Global analysis and forecast impact assessment of CubeSat MicroMAS-2 on numerical weather prediction

The Micro-Sized Microwave Atmospheric Satellite (MicroMAS-2) is a 12-channel passive microwave radiometer on a CubeSat developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory. MicroMAS-2 observations (1) enhance the current observing system capabilities and (2) mitigate the potential loss of some existing observations. Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) quantitatively estimate the expected impact of adding the...