Chairs: James B. Abshire, NASA Goddard/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States and Chikao Nagasawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Convener: Edward V Browell, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Yorktown, VA, United States
Co-conveners: James B. Abshire, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Gerhard Ehret, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and Chikao Nagasawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
OSPA Liaison: James B. Abshire, NASA Goddard/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States
Investigating the constraint imposed by column averaged PBL CO2 data within an atmospheric inversion framework (31189)
Andrew E Schuh, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States, Stephan R Kawa, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, A Scott Denning, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, David F Baker, Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, United States and Anand K Ramanathan, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States
On the Ability of Ascends to Constrain Fossil Fuel, Ocean and High Latitude Emissions: Flux Estimation Experiments (10654)
Sean Crowell, LumenUs Scientific, Oklahoma City, United States, Stephan R Kawa, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Dorit Hammerling, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Boulder, United States, Berrien Moore III, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States and Peter J Rayner, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Impacts Of Atmospheric State On Differential Absorption Spectroscopy Retrievals Of Column XCO2 Mixing Ratios (13356)
Timothy Pernini1, T Scott Zaccheo1, Chris Botos1, Edward V Browell2, John Henderson1 and Michael D Obland3, (1)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Yorktown, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Surface and Column Variations of CO2 using Weighting Functions for Future Active Remote CO2 sensors and Data from DISCOVER-AQ Field Campaign (15936)
Melissa M Yang, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Yonghoon Choi, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Susan A Kooi, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States and Edward V Browell, STARSS III Affiliate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Boundary Layer CO2 mixing ratio measurements by an airborne pulsed IPDA lidar (12718)
Anand K Ramanathan1,2, Jianping Mao1,2, James B. Abshire3 and Graham R Allan1,4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (4)Hexagon US Federal, Lanham, MD, United States
Retrieval of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration above Clouds and Cloud Top Pressure from Airborne Lidar Measurements during ASCENDS Science Campaigns (27765)
Jianping Mao1, Anand K Ramanathan1, Michael Rodriguez2, Graham R Allan3, William E Hasselbrack4, James B. Abshire5, Haris Riris6 and Stephan R Kawa6, (1)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (2)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, United States, (3)Hexagon US Federal, Lanham, MD, United States, (4)ATA Aerospace, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Improved Instrumentation for the Detection of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration using an Airborne IPDA LIDAR for 2014 NASA ASCENDS Science Campaign (20422)
Graham R Allan1, Haris Riris2, William E Hasselbrack3, Michael Rodriguez4, Anand K Ramanathan5, Xiaoli Sun6, Jianping Mao5 and James B. Abshire7, (1)Hexagon US Federal, Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)ATA Aerospace, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, United States, (5)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States
The 2014 ASCENDS Field Campaign - a Carbon Dioxide Laser Absorption Spectrometer Perspective (18574)
Gary D Spiers1, Robert T Menzies2, Joseph Charles Jacob3, Sven Geier4 and Santos F Fregoso2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Atmospheric CO2 Column Measurements Under Clear and Cloudy Conditions Using an Airborne Intensity-Modulated Continuous-Wave Lidar (6472)
Bing Lin1, Syed Ismail1, Fenton W Harrison1, Amin R Nehrir1, Edward V Browell2, Tai-Fang Fan3, Susan A Kooi3, Jeremy Todd Dobler4, Byron Meadows1 and Michael D Obland1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Yorktown, VA, United States, (3)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)ITT Space Systems, LLC, Fort Wayne, IN, United States
Column CO2 Measurements with Intensity-Modulated Continuous-Wave Lidar System During the ASCENDS 2014 Summer Field Experiment (13763)
Byron Meadows1, Amin R Nehrir1, Bing Lin1, Fenton W Harrison1, Jeremy Todd Dobler2, Susan A Kooi3, Joel F Campbell1, Michael D Obland1, Edward V Browell4 and Melissa M Yang1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)ITT Space Systems, LLC, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, (3)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Yorktown, VA, United States
Advancements in Algorithms for the Retrieval of CO2 Column Amount and Path Length Using an Intensity-Modulated Continuous-Wave Lidar (24000)
Fenton W Harrison1, Bing Lin1, Syed Ismail1, Amin R Nehrir1, Jeremy Todd Dobler2, Edward V Browell3, Susan A Kooi4, Joel F Campbell1, Michael D Obland1, Melissa M Yang1 and Byron Meadows1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)ITT Space Systems, LLC, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, (3)STARSS III Affiliate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
Advanced Intensity-Modulation Continuous-Wave Lidar Techniques for Column CO2 Measurements (10345)
Joel F Campbell1, Bing Lin1, Amin R Nehrir1, Fenton W Harrison1, Michael D Obland1, Syed Ismail1, Byron Meadows1 and Edward V Browell2, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Yorktown, VA, United States
Signal to Noise Ratio Estimation for a Space-borne Swept-Frequency Intensity-Modulated CO2 Laser Absorption Spectrometer (29288)
Songsheng Chen1, Bing Lin1, Larry B Petway1, Syed Ismail1, Joel F Campbell1, Yingxin Bai2, Fenton W Harrison1, Tamer F Refaat3, Michael D Obland1, Byron Meadows1 and Edward V Browell4, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)STARSS III Affiliate, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
CH4 IPDA LIDAR DATA SIMULATOR AND PROCESSOR FOR MERLIN MISSION: PROTOTYPES DEVELOPMENT AT IPSL/LMD (30427)
Sébastien Berthier1, Pierre Flamant2, Olivier Chimi-Chiadjeu1, Fabien Gibert1, Raymond Armante1, Cyril D Crevoisier3, Clémence Pierangelo4, Jordi Chinaud4, Bruno Millet4 and Gerhard Ehret5, (1)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Palaiseau, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (2)LMD, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, (3)CNRS, Palaiseau, France, (4)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (5)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
High Power and Frequency-Agile Optical Parametric Oscillators for Airborne DIAL Measurements of CH4 and H2O (13972)
Amin R Nehrir1, Tim Shuman2, Ti Chuang2, Johnathan W Hair1, Tamer F Refaat3, Syed Ismail1, Susan A Kooi4 and Anthony Notari1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Fibertek, Inc, Herndon, VA, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States
Design of an Autonomous Polarized Raman Lidar for Arctic Observations (13141)
Robert Andrew Stillwell, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Ryan Reynolds Neely III, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Advanced Studies Program, Boulder, CO, United States; University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Michael O'Neill, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Jeffrey P Thayer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States and Matthew M Hayman, NCAR, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, United States
A New Lidar Data Processing Algorithm Including Full Uncertainty Budget and Standardized Vertical Resolution for use Within the NDACC and GRUAN Networks (27777)
Thierry Leblanc, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alexander Haefele, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Remote Sensing Group, Payerne, Switzerland, Robert J Sica, University of Western Ontario, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, ON, Canada and Anne van Gijsel, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
Radiometric Inter-Comparison between Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite and Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 on METOp-A/B (13363)
Jane Zeng1, Xiangqian Wu2, Ruediger Lang3, Rosemary Munro3, Lawrence E Flynn2, Michael Grotenhuis1, C. Trevor Beck4 and Sherry Pan5, (1)ERT@NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (3)EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, (4)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, CICS, College Park, MD, United States
