GC51E:
Terra: 15 Years As the Earth Observing System Flagship Observatory I Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Lahouari Bounoua, NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Lahouari Bounoua, NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Intercomparison Calibration Study of Terra ASTER and MODIS
Karen Yuan1, Kurtis J Thome2 and Joel McCorkel2, (1)Wyle Science Technology and Engineering, Lanham, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
15 Years of Terra MODIS Instrument on-Orbit Performance
Xiaoxiong Xiong, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Vince Salomonson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
CERES Angular Distribution Models for Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Flux Calculations
Wenying Su1, Joseph Corbett2, Zachary Eitzen2 and Lusheng Liang2, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Assessment of IASI CO and MOPITT CO Data Assimilation in CAM-Chem.
Jerome Barre1, David P Edwards2, Avelino F Arellano3, Benjamin Gaubert1, Helen Marie Worden1, Jeffrey L Anderson4 and Arthur P Mizzi5, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NCAR/MMM/FL2, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Terra@15, S’Cool@18: A Long-Running Student and Citizen Science Campaign for Validating Cloud Retrievals
Lin H Chambers1, Sarah Crecelius2 and Tina M Rogerson2, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Roughness and Glacier Zones from MISR, 2000-2013
Anne Walden Nolin and Eugene Mar, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Combining MODIS and Landsat to Study the Impact of Urban Lands on Surface Climate in the U.S
Lahouari Bounoua1, Georgy Mostovoy2, Ping Zhang3, Kurtis J Thome3, Marc Lee Imhoff4, Marshall Shepherd5, Joseph A Santanello6, Dale A Quattrochi7, Julie Silva8 and Robert Edward Wolfe9, (1)NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Odenton, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Lab, College Park, MD, United States, (5)The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (6)NASA, Alexandria, VA, United States, (7)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (9)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Web-based CERES Clouds QC Property Viewing Tool
Rita A Smith1, Churngwei Chu2, Sunny Sun-Mack3, Yan Chen3, Elizabeth Heckert3 and Patrick Minnis4, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Nasa Larc, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Atmospheric Composition Monitoring with MOPITT and IASI: CO, a Tracer of Pollution
Maya George1, Cathy Clerbaux1, Juliette Hadji-Lazaro1, Idir Bouarar2, Daniel Hurtmans3, Pierre-Francois Coheur3, David P Edwards4, Merritt N Deeter4, Helen Marie Worden4 and Antje Inness5, (1)UPMC Univ. Paris 06; CNRS/LATMOS-IPSL, Paris, France, (2)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (3)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Spectroscopie de l'Atmosphère, Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, Brussels, Belgium, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom
 
TERRA Education and Public Outreach: Bringing Earth Science Resources to the Public, Students, Educators, and Citizen Scientists
Natasha Lewis, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Geology, Norman, OK, United States, Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lahouari Bounoua, NASA-GFSC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Tassia Owen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Shepherdstown, WV, United States
 
15-year on-orbit Terra-sensor Intercalibration Using ASTER and MODIS
Joel McCorkel, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Improvements in Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Products Based on Instrument Calibrations
Natividad Manalo Smith1, Kory Priestley2, Norman G Loeb2, Susan Thomas1, Mohan Shankar1 and Dale Walikainen1, (1)Science Sytstems and Applications, Inc, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Exploring the Usefulness of MISR-HR Products to Estimate Maize Crop Extent and Using Field Evidence to Evaluate the Results in South Africa’s Free State Province
Michel M Verstraete1, Nichola M. Knox1, Linda A Hunt2 and Linda Kleyn1, (1)South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Earth Observation Directorate, Pretoria, South Africa, (2)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Monitoring Seasonality in Phenology of Amazonian Rainforests Using MISR and MODIS Data
Yuri Knyazikhin1, Jian Bi1, Sungho CHOI1, Taejin Park1,2 and Ranga B Myneni1, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Fifteen Years of Sea-Surface Temperature from MODIS on Terra: a backwards look and a view to the future.
Peter J Minnett1, Robert Evans2, Katherine Ann Kilpatrick1 and Guillermo P Podesta2, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Univ Miami / RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States
 
Some observations regarding the thermal flux from Earth’s erupting volcanoes for the period 2000 to 2014
Robert Wright1, Matthew Blackett2 and Charley Hill-Butler2, (1)Univ. Hawaii/HIGP, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom
 
Synergistic Use of Satellite Volcano Detection and Science: A Fifteen Year Perspective of ASTER on Terra
Michael S Ramsey, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
 
Overview of the CERES Edition-4 Multilayer Cloud Property Datasets
Fu-Lung Chang1, Patrick Minnis2, Sunny Sun-Mack1, Yan Chen1, Rita A Smith1 and Ricky R Brown1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
The CERES Suite of the ISCCP-like Cloud and Flux Products
Moguo Sun1, David Doelling2, Le Trang Nguyen1, Rajalekshmy Raju1 and tai-Fang Fan1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
The JPL ASTER Volcano Archive: the development and capabilities of a 15 year global high resolution archive of volcano data.
Justin Patrick Linick1, David C Pieri1 and Robert M Sanchez2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
From Soup to Nuts: How Terra has enabled the growth of NASA Earth science communication
Kevin Ward, Michael J Carlowicz, Jesse Allen, Adam Voiland and Paul Przyborski, Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States