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

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Kurtis J Thome1, Lahouari Bounoua2, Robert Edward Wolfe1 and Si-Chee Tsay3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, MD, United States(3)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Lahouari Bounoua, NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Lahouari Bounoua, NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Terra – 15 Years as the Earth Observing System Flagship Observatory
Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
4:15 PM
 
Fifteen Years of ASTER Data on NASA’s Terra Platform
Michael Abrams, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Hiroji Tsu, Japan Space Systems, Tokyo, Japan
4:30 PM
 
Recent Changes in Earth’s Energy Budget As Observed By CERES
Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
4:45 PM
 
MISR at 15: Multiple Perspectives on Our Changing Earth
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 Garay1, Veljko M Jovanovic1, Ralph A Kahn7, Olga Kalashnikova1, Yuri Knyazikhin8, Yang Liu9, Roger Marchand10, John V Martonchik1, Jan-Peter Muller11, Anne Walden Nolin12, Bernard Pinty13, Michel M Verstraete14 and Dong Liang Wu7, (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, Montclair, NJ, United States, (4)Penn State, University Park, PA, United States, (5)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (6)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (9)Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, (10)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (11)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (12)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (13)Joint Research Center Ispra, Ispra, Italy, (14)South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa
5:00 PM
 
MOPITT Products and Their Growing Scientific Impact
Merritt N Deeter1, Vincil Dean1, David P Edwards1, Louisa K Emmons1, John C Gille1, Debbie Mao1, Sara Martinez-Alonso1, Helen Marie Worden1, James R Drummond2 and Florian Nichitiu3, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada
5:15 PM
 
Fifteen Years of Earth Observations from MODIS: What Has Been Accomplished?
Michael D King1, Steven W Running2, Steven E Platnick3 and Bryan A Franz3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
5:30 PM
 
Evaluating the Relative Stability of CERES, MISR and MODIS Radiances Over the Terra Record
Joseph Corbett, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States and Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
5:45 PM
 
15 Years of Terra, 14 Years of Application Usage
Jeffrey E Schmaltz1,2, Christian Alarcon3, Ryan A Boller2, Matthew F Cechini4, Diane Davies5, Gary Fu1, Taylor Gunnoe4, Jeffrey R Hall6, Thomas Huang7, Shriram Ilavajhala1, Maki Jackson1, Jerome King4, Mike McGann8, Kevin J Murphy2, Joe T Roberts7, Charles K Thompson7 and Gang Ye2, (1)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Jet Propulstion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Columbus Technologies and Services Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Trigg-Davies Consulting Ltd., Malvern, WR14, United Kingdom, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Columbus Technologies and Services Greenbelt, Elkridge, MD, United States