A51I:
Satellite Observations from Passive Microwave and Infrared Instruments (Calibration, Intercalibration, and Bias Correction) I Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Isaac Moradi, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Rachael Kroodsma, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Isaac Moradi, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center - ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Rachael Kroodsma, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Isaac Moradi, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Isaac Moradi, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
In-Flight Radiometric Calibration of SNPP VIIRS using Molecular Scattering over Oceanic Oligotrophic Regions
Alain Sei, Northrop Grumman Corporation Redondo Beach, Redondo Beach, CA, United States, Bruce Hauss, DKK, Ruston, LA, United States, Patty Pratt, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Culver City, CA, United States and Robert Frouin, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Snpp CrIS Instrumental Status and Raw Data Record Quality Since the Mission
Xin Jin1, Yong Han2, Ninghai Sun1, Fuzhong Weng3, Likun Wang4, Yong Chen4 and Denis A Tremblay5, (1)Earth Resources Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NOAA College Park - NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Science Data Processing Inc.,, Laurel, MD, United States
 
An Inter-calibrated Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature Data Record and Ocean Products
Kyle A Hilburn and Frank J Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
 
Community Radiative Transfer Model for Inter-Satellites Calibration and Verification
Quanhua Liu1, Nicholas R Nalli2, Alexander Ignatov3, Kevin Garrett4, Yong Chen5, Fuzhong Weng6, Sid Ahmed Boukabara7, Paul F van Delst2, David Groff2, Andrew Collard2, Everette Joseph8, Vernon Morris8 and Peter J Minnett9, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)IMSG, Inc., Alexandria, VA, United States, (3)NOAA Camp Springs, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (4)Riverside Technology Inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (7)NOAA NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (8)Howard University, Washington, DC, United States, (9)Univ Miami, Miami, FL, United States
 
Common References for Inter Comparison of L-Band Brightness Temperatures Satellite Acquisitions.
Francois Cabot1, Eric Anterrieu2, Yann H Kerr3 and Ali Khazaal1, (1)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, (2)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (3)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse, France
 
Inter-Calibrating Observations from Microwave Humidity Sounders Onboard NOAA and Metop Satellites
Ralph R Ferraro1, Isaac Moradi2, James Beauchamp2, Thomas M Smith3 and Huan Meng4, (1)Univ Maryland-ESSIC/CICS and NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)U of MD-M Sq Office Bldg, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Adm, College Park, MD, United States
 
Intercalibrating and Validating Saphir and Atms Observations
Isaac Moradi, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Ralph R Ferraro, Univ Maryland-ESSIC/CICS and NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States
 
Intercalibration of High Frequency Channels on GPM Constellation
Hamideh Ebrahimi, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, Saswati Datta, Data and Image Processing Consultants, Morrisville, NC, United States and Linwood Jones, Univ Central Florida-ECE Dept, Orlando, FL, United States
 
Can SAPHIR Instrument Onboard MEGHATROPIQUES Retrieve Hydrometeors and Rainfall Characteristics ?
Jayesh M Goyal, Jayaraman Srinivasan and S K Satheesh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
 
Derivation of Uncertainties for GPM Microwave Radiometer Inter-Calibration
Rachael Kroodsma, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Sensitivity of Forward Radiative Transfer Model on Spectroscopic Assumptions and Input Geophysical Parameters at 23.8 GHz and 183 GHz Channels and its Impact on Inter-calibration of Microwave Radiometers
Saswati Datta1, W. Linwood Jones2, Hamideh Ebrahimi3, Ruiyao Chen2, Vivienne Payne4 and Rachael Kroodsma5, (1)Data and Image Processing Consultants, Morrisville, NC, United States, (2)University of Central Florida, Central Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory, Orlando, FL, United States, (3)University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Removing Diurnal Cycle Contamination in Satellite-Derived Tropospheric Temperatures: Understanding Tropical Tropospheric Trend Discrepancies 
Stephen Po-Chedley, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Tyler James Thorsen, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Qiang Fu, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Impact of Loss of Microwave and Radio Occultation Observations in Operational Numerical Weather Prediction in Support of the US Data Gap Mitigation Activities
Richard A Anthes, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, COSMIC, Boulder, CO, United States and Lidia Cucurull, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Using image reconstruction methods to enhance gridded resolutionfor a newly calibrated passive microwave climate data record
Aaron C Paget1, Mary J. Brodzik2, Jacob Gotberg1, Molly Hardman3 and David G Long4, (1)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT, United States
 
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