Earth Science

TEMPEST-D

9 tracked publications and 76 citations from 2020–2024. Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems – Demonstration. Launched 2018. Life-cycle cost: $11M in 2025 dollars. Active Mission Window October 1, 2018 to July 1, 2023: 8 publications, 0 top-10% credit.

Orbiter · h-index 4 · prime mission ended 2018

Lifetime

Scope Papers published from the first full month after science operations begin through 2 years after the mission ends. Citations are counted through the third calendar year after each paper appears. Methods Papers published from the first full month after science operations begin through 2 years after the prime mission ends. Citations are counted through the third calendar year after each paper appears. Methods Every tracked publication to date, with every citation to date. Methods

Key measures

Active Mission Window · papers October 1, 2018 to July 1, 2023
Tracked publicationsTracked publications: peer-reviewed research papers we found for the mission. The list may not be complete. Methods8
CitationsCitations received by the tracked publications in the selected scope. The two windowed scopes count each paper’s citations only within its citation window. Methods52
Mean citations per publicationMean citations: total citations divided by tracked publications in the selected scope. One blockbuster paper can lift it. Methods6.5
Median citations per publicationMedian citations: the middle paper’s citation count in the selected scope; half the papers have more, half fewer. A single blockbuster sways it less than the mean. Methods4.5
Uncited publicationsUncited publications: papers with no citations in the selected scope. Methods0 (0%)
Top-10% creditTop 10%: among the 10% most-cited papers from this division’s missions, ranked against papers published around the same time. A paper naming several missions is split evenly among the missions in this division that claim it, so counts can be fractional. Methods0 · 0% of division
Top-1% creditTop 1%: among the 1% most-cited papers from this division’s missions within the selected window. Not adjusted for publication year. A paper naming several missions is split evenly among the missions in this division that claim it, so counts can be fractional. Methods0 · 0% of division
Lifetime indices · every tracked publication to date, in any scope
h-indexh-index: the largest h such that h papers have at least h citations each. It only grows with time, so older missions score higher. Methods4
g-indexg-index: the largest g for which the g most-cited papers together hold at least g² citations. Like the h-index, but it lets the most-cited papers count for more. Methods8
m-index, as of October 4, 2026m-index: a mission’s h-index divided by the years since its first peer-reviewed paper. It falls every 1 January even when nothing else changes, so it belongs to the date shown; it also discounts the long operating life that larger missions paid for. Methods0.6
toritori (total research impact, from ADS): for every paper citing one of the mission’s papers, 1 divided by the citing paper’s reference count times the cited paper’s author count, summed, with self-citations removed. It favors citations from papers with short reference lists and from outside the mission’s own authors. Computed over the tracked citation graph, which can be slightly incomplete. Methods0.4
riqriq (research impact quotient): 1,000 times the square root of tori, divided by the years since the mission’s first paper. A rate, not a total, so it does not keep growing with age the way the h-index and tori do. Methods127

Tracked publications

  1. TEMPEST-D Radiometer: Instrument Description and Prelaunch Calibration

    Padmanabhan, Sharmila, 2021, ITGRS

    25 citations

  2. Calibration and Validation of the TEMPEST-D CubeSat Radiometer

    Berg, Wesley, 2021, ITGRS

    21 citations

  3. A Passive Microwave Retrieval Algorithm with Minimal View-Angle Bias: Application to the TEMPEST-D CubeSat Mission

    Schulte, Richard M., 2020, JAtOT

    10 citations

  4. Rainfall Estimation From TEMPEST-D CubeSat Observations: A Machine-Learning Approach

    Radhakrishnan, Chandrasekar, 2022, IJSTA

    9 citations

  5. Cross Validation of TEMPEST-D and RainCube Observations Over Precipitation Systems

    Radhakrishnan, Chandrasekar, 2022, IJSTA

    4 citations

  6. Single-Point Calibration for Microwave Sounders: Application to TEMPEST-D

    Brown, Shannon T., 2023, JAtOT

    3 citations

  7. Merging TEMPEST microwave and GOES-16 geostationary IR soundings for improved water vapor profiles

    Kuo, Chia-Pang, 2024, AMT

    2 citations

  8. Correcting Calibration Drifts Using Solar and Lunar Intrusions for Miniaturized Microwave Radiometers

    Crews, Angela, 2022, ITGRS

    1 citation

  9. TEMPEST-D and GPM-GMI Observations Over Precipitating Systems: A Cross-Validation Study

    Radhakrishnan, Chandrasekar, 2023, IJSTA

    1 citation

How we found these papers

We searched NASA’s Astrophysics Data System (ADS) for peer-reviewed articles naming TEMPEST-D in the title, abstract or keywords; standard filters drop articles that are not peer-reviewed and magazine pieces. SciX is ADS’s current interface.

((=abs:"Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems")) AND property:refereed AND doctype:article AND pubdate:[2018-10 TO 2040-01] AND NOT bibstem:("A&R" OR "AIASJ" OR "AeAm" OR "AirSp" OR "AsNow" OR "AsUAI" OR "AvWST" OR "C&E" OR "C&T" OR "CAPJ" OR "E&S" OR "ENews" OR "IrAJ" OR "JCos" OR "JRASC" OR "LAstr" OR "MNSSA" OR "Met" OR "NewSc" OR "Orion" OR "PhT" OR "PhTea" OR "PhuZ" OR "PhyOJ" OR "PhyW" OR "PlR" OR "SciAm" OR "SpFl" OR "ZemVs")

Open in SciX

Removed after review (9)

  1. 2022QJRMS.148.2325C Weather-forecast ensemble study; does not name TEMPEST-D or its radiometer. Decision 🤖
  2. 2023EMnAs.195..425H TEMPEST here is a coastal-forest flooding experiment, not the CubeSat mission. Decision 🤖
  3. 2024QJRMS.150.3220T Weather-forecast ensemble study by an author named Tempest; not about the mission. Decision 🤖
  4. 2025QJRMS.151e5030T Weather-forecast ensemble study by an author named Tempest; not about the mission. Decision 🤖
  5. 2026PLoSO..2123584M TEMPEST here is a coastal-forest flooding experiment, not the CubeSat mission. Decision 🤖
  6. COWVRTEMPEST Multisensor Satellite-Based Surface State Parameter Retrievals Wrong platform. COWVR and TEMPEST surface-state retrievals from the TEMPEST radiometer re-flown on the ISS as the STP-H8 hosted payload, not the TEMPEST-D CubeSat; the abstract names "Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST)" for the ISS unit, which has no megasheet row. Decision 👨
  7. Discrimination of Light Precipitation from COWVR + TEMPEST, GMI, and ATMS Passive Microwave Radiometer Observations Wrong platform. COWVR and TEMPEST light-precipitation discrimination using the TEMPEST radiometer on the ISS (STP-H8), not the TEMPEST-D CubeSat; same full-name match on the hosted-payload re-flight. Decision 👨
  8. Impact of sampling of GPM orbital data on streamflow simulations Streamflow study using GPM rainfall; mentions TEMPEST-D only as a possible future data source. Decision 🤖
  9. Derived Observations From Frequently Sampled Microwave Measurements of Precipitation—Part III: Convoys of mm-Wave Radiometers Concept study of radiometer convoys using simulated data; uses no TEMPEST-D measurements. Decision 🤖