Chairs: James Brice Abshire, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Chikao Nagasawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Conveners: Edward V Browell, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Yorktown, VA, United States
Co-conveners: James Brice Abshire, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Gerhard Ehret, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and Chikao Nagasawa, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Tokyo, Japan
OSPA Liaisons: James Brice Abshire, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Investigating the constraint imposed by column averaged PBL CO2 data within an atmospheric inversion framework
Andrew E Schuh1, Stephan R Kawa2, A Scott Denning1, David F Baker1 and Anand K Ramanathan3, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)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
Sean Crowell1, Stephan R Kawa2, Dorit Hammerling3, Berrien Moore III1 and Peter J Rayner4, (1)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Impacts Of Atmospheric State On Differential Absorption Spectroscopy Retrievals Of Column XCO2 Mixing Ratios
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
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, Hampton, VA, United States and Edward V Browell, STARSS II Affiliate, Hampton, VA, United States
Impact of Using Assimilated Data for Evaluating Performance of Active CO2 Optical Depth Measurements
Susan A Kooi1, Bing Lin2, Syed Ismail3, Edward V Browell4, Fenton W Harrison3, Melissa M Yang3, Yonghoon Choi5 and Stephan R Kawa6, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Yorktown, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)STARSS II Affiliate, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Boundary Layer CO2 mixing ratio measurements by an airborne pulsed IPDA lidar
Anand K Ramanathan1,2, Jianping Mao1,2, James Brice Abshire1 and Graham R Allan1,3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (3)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States
Retrieval of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration above Clouds and Cloud Top Pressure from Airborne Lidar Measurements during ASCENDS Science Campaigns
Jianping Mao1, Anand K Ramanathan1, Michael Rodriguez2, Graham R Allan2, William E Hasselbrack2, James Brice Abshire3, Haris Riris3 and Stephan R Kawa3, (1)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (2)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, (3)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
Graham R Allan1, Haris Riris2, William E Hasselbrack1, Michael Rodriguez1, Anand K Ramanathan3, Xiaoli Sun4, Jianping Mao3 and James Brice Abshire4, (1)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Atmospheric CO2 Column Measurements Under Clear and Cloudy Conditions Using an Airborne Intensity-Modulated Continuous-Wave Lidar
Bing Lin1, Syed Ismail1, Fenton W Harrison1, Amin R Nehrir1, Edward V Browell2, Tai-Fang Fan3, Susan A Kooi3, Jeremy T 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
Byron Meadows1, Amin R Nehrir1, Bing Lin1, Fenton W Harrison1, Jeremy T 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
Fenton W Harrison1, Bing Lin1, Syed Ismail1, Amin R Nehrir1, Jeremy T 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 II Affiliate, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
Advanced Intensity-Modulation Continuous-Wave Lidar Techniques for Column CO2 Measurements
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
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 II Affiliate, Hampton, VA, United States
CH4 IPDA LIDAR DATA SIMULATOR AND PROCESSOR FOR MERLIN MISSION: PROTOTYPES DEVELOPMENT AT IPSL/LMD
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
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
Update on the Development of Optical Remote Sensing Tools for Quantification of Greenhouse Gases from Distributed Area Sources
Kevin Douglass1, Stephen E Maxwell1, Daniel V Samarov1, Joshua C Bienfang1,2, Alessandro Restelli1,2, Xiaomeng Liu3 and David F Plusquellic3, (1)National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, (2)Joint Quantum Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (3)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Design of an Autonomous Polarized Raman Lidar for Arctic Observations
Robert Andrew Stillwell1, Ryan Reynolds Neely III2,3, Michael O'Neill4, Jeffrey P Thayer1 and Matthew M Hayman5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Advanced Studies Program, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NCAR, Research Aviation Facility, Boulder, CO, United States
A New Lidar Data Processing Algorithm Including Full Uncertainty Budget and Standardized Vertical Resolution for use Within the NDACC and GRUAN Networks
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, 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
Jian Zeng1, Xiangqian Wu2, Ruediger Lang3, Rosemary Munro3, Lawrence E Flynn2, Michael Grotenhuis1, C. Trevor Beck2 and Sherry Pan4, (1)ERT@NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, United States, (3)EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, (4)University of Maryland College Park, CICS, College Park, MD, United States