Earth Science

Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems – Demonstration (TEMPEST-D)

Orbiter · Competed · PI-led · Launched on May 21, 2018 · Completed · LCC: $8.2M/$11M (2025 $)Life-cycle cost: NASA’s reported cost to build, launch, and operate a mission through its prime mission, plus documented partner contributions, in 2025 dollars. Extended missions are not included. Methods

Scope Active Mission WindowActivePapers published from the first full month after science operations begin through two years after the mission ends. Citations are counted through the third calendar year after each paper appears. For TEMPEST-D, papers published October 1, 2018 to July 1, 2023. Methods LifetimeLifetimeEvery tracked publication to date, with every citation to date. For TEMPEST-D, papers published from 2020 to November 3, 2026. Methods
Tracked publicationsTracked publications: peer-reviewed papers we found that name the mission or its instruments in their titles, abstracts, or keywords. Papers that used the data without naming it are missed. Methods9
CitationsCitations: every citation these publications have drawn to date. Older missions have had longer to collect them. Methods84
Citation indices
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. Methods5
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. Methods9
m-indexm-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; the figure shown is as of November 3, 2026. It also discounts the long operating life that larger missions paid for. Methods0.7
toritori (total research impact, from SciX): 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. Always over every tracked publication to date, whichever scope is chosen. Methods0.6
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. Like tori, always over every tracked publication to date. Methods157

Publications and citations by year (lifetime)

Publications per yearCumulative citations

Institutional contributions (lifetime)The institutions SciX lists for each paper’s authors, as printed on the paper, located through the Research Organization Registry. A square counts a paper once, however many of its authors worked there. Methods

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Tracked publications over the lifetime (9)

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

    Padmanabhan, Sharmila, 2021, ITGRS

    26 lifetime citations

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

    Berg, Wesley, 2021, ITGRS

    24 lifetime 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 lifetime citations

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

    Radhakrishnan, Chandrasekar, 2022, IJSTA

    9 lifetime citations

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

    Brown, Shannon T., 2023, JAtOT

    5 lifetime citations

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

    Radhakrishnan, Chandrasekar, 2022, IJSTA

    4 lifetime citations

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

    Crews, Angela, 2022, ITGRS

    3 lifetime citations

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

    Kuo, Chia-Pang, 2024, AMT

    2 lifetime citations

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

    Radhakrishnan, Chandrasekar, 2023, IJSTA

    1 lifetime citation

How we found these papers

We searched NASA’s Science Explorer (SciX) 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.

((=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 "ACPD" OR "AIASJ" OR "AMTD" OR "AeAm" OR "AirSp" OR "AsNow" OR "AsUAI" OR "AvWST" OR "BGD" OR "C&E" OR "C&T" OR "CAPJ" OR "CliPD" OR "E&S" OR "ENews" OR "ESDD" OR "ESSDD" OR "ESuDD" OR "GID" OR "GMDD" OR "GeCAS" OR "HESSD" OR "IrAJ" OR "JCos" OR "JRASC" OR "LAstr" OR "MNSSA" OR "Met" OR "NHESD" OR "NPGD" OR "NewSc" OR "OcScD" OR "Orion" OR "PhT" OR "PhTea" OR "PhuZ" OR "PhyOJ" OR "PhyW" OR "PlR" OR "SOILD" OR "SciAm" OR "SpFl" OR "TCD" OR "ZemVs")

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Removed after review (4)

  1. COWVRTEMPEST Multisensor Satellite-Based Surface State Parameter Retrievals Uses the TEMPEST radiometer flown on the Space Station, not the TEMPEST-D CubeSat. Decision 👨
  2. Discrimination of Light Precipitation from COWVR + TEMPEST, GMI, and ATMS Passive Microwave Radiometer Observations Uses the TEMPEST radiometer flown on the Space Station, not the TEMPEST-D CubeSat. Decision 👨
  3. 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 🤖
  4. 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 🤖