IN12A:
Space-Based, Operational Global Earth Observations from S-NPP and JPSS II

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  John Furgerson, Joint Polar Satellite System, Lanham, MD, United States and Mitch Goldberg, Joint Polar Satellite System, Lanham, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  John Furgerson, Joint Polar Satellite System, Lanham, MD, United States; Joint Polar Satellite System, Lanham, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Gary McWilliams, Joint Polar Satellite System, Lanham, MD, United States; Joint Polar Satellite System, Potomac, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  John Furgerson, Joint Polar Satellite System, Lanham, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
The Operational Use of Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Satellite Information in Alaska
Carven Allen Scott, National Weather Service Alaska Region Headquarters, Environmental Scientific Services Division, Anchorage, AK, United States and Mitch Goldberg, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, JOINT POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEMS OFFICE, Silver Spring, MD, United States
10:35 AM
 
The Role of Suomi NPP VIIRS Data in Land Science and Applications.
Christopher Owen Justice1, Ivan Andras Csiszar2, Miguel O Roman3 and Eric Vermote3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:50 AM
 
Validation and Refinement of a Lunar Irradiance Model for Suomi NPP VIIRS Day-Night Band Quantitative Nighttime Applications
Steven D Miller1, Cindy Combs1, Sébastien Wagner2, Bartolomeo Viticchiè2, Andi Walther3 and Jeremy Solbrig4, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, (3)Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI, United States, (4)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States
11:05 AM
 
A Simplified Approach to Cloud Masking with VIIRS in the S-NPP / JPSS Era
Gary Jedlovec, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Frank LaFontaine, Raytheon, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
11:20 AM
 
Extending the Satellite Derived Climate DATA Record of Sea Surface Temperature with VIIRS
Katherine Ann Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Williams, Susan Walsh, Robert Evans, M Szczodrak, M Izaguirre and Peter J Minnett, Univ Miami / RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States
11:35 AM
 
SUOMI NPP Products PERFORMANCE 
Lihang Zhou, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
11:50 AM
 
Demonstrating S-NPP VIIRS Products with the Naval Research Laboratory R&D Websites
Arunas P Kuciauskas1, Jeffrey Hawkins1, Jeremy Solbrig1, Richard Bankert1, Kim Richardson1, Mindy Surratt1, Steven D Miller2 and John Kent1, (1)Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Colorado State Univ-CIRA, Fort Collins, CO, United States
12:05 PM
 
MetEd Resources for Embracing Advances with S-NPP and JPSS
Wendy E Abshire, Patrick N Dills and Marianne Weingroff, UCAR-COMET, Boulder, CO, United States