GC54C:
Terra: 15 Years As the Earth Observing System Flagship Observatory II

Session ID#: 3707

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2010 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lahouari Bounoua, NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, United States, Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, Greenbelt, United States
Primary Convener:  Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, Greenbelt, United States, Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Lahouari Bounoua, NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lahouari Bounoua, NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1610 Atmosphere [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Terra – 15 Years as the Earth Observing System Flagship Observatory (17616)
Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Fifteen Years of ASTER Data on NASA’s Terra Platform (Invited) (6017)
Michael Abrams, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Hiroji Tsu, Japan Space Systems, Tokyo, Japan
Recent Changes in Earth’s Energy Budget As Observed By CERES (Invited) (5610)
Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
MISR at 15: Multiple Perspectives on Our Changing Earth (Invited) (6144)
David J Diner1, Thomas P Ackerman2, Amy J Braverman1, Carol J Bruegge1, Mark J Chopping3, Eugene Edmund Clothiaux4, Roger Davies5, Larry Di Girolamo6, Michael J Garay7, Veljko M Jovanovic8, Ralph A Kahn9, Olga V. Kalashnikova10, Yuri Knyazikhin11, Yang Liu12, Roger Marchand13, John V Martonchik1, Jan-Peter Muller14, Anne Walden Nolin15, Bernard Pinty16, Michel M. Verstraete17, Dong Liang Wu9 and The MISR Team, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Montclair State University, Department of Earth & Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States, (4)Penn State, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (5)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (11)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (12)Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, (13)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, (14)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (15)University of Nevada Reno, Geography, Reno, United States, (16)Joint Research Center Ispra, Ispra, Italy, (17)South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa
MOPITT Products and Their Growing Scientific Impact (Invited) (6135)
Merritt N Deeter1, Vincil Dean1, David P Edwards2, Louisa K Emmons3, John C Gille4, Debbie Mao1, Sara Martinez-Alonso5, Helen Marie Worden6, James R Drummond7 and Florian Nichitiu8, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, United States, (6)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Dalhousie University, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada, (8)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada
Fifteen Years of Earth Observations from MODIS: What Has Been Accomplished? (7554)
Michael D King, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Steven W Running, University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG), Missoula, MT, United States, Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Bryan A Franz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Evaluating the Relative Stability of CERES, MISR and MODIS Radiances Over the Terra Record (16160)
Joseph Corbett, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States and Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
15 Years of Terra, 14 Years of Application Usage (21986)
Jeffrey E Schmaltz1,2, Christian Alarcon3, Ryan A Boller4, Matthew F Cechini5, Diane Davies6, Gary Fu1, Taylor Gunnoe5, Jeffrey R Hall3, Thomas Huang7, Shriram Ilavajhala1, Maki Jackson1, Jerome King5, Mike McGann8, Kevin J Murphy4, Joe T Roberts9, Charles K Thompson7 and Gang Ye4, (1)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Columbus Technologies and Services Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Trigg-Davies Consulting Ltd., Malvern, WR14, United Kingdom, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Columbus Technologies and Services Greenbelt, Elkridge, MD, United States, (9)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States