A33E-0226
Satellite EDR Evaluation with First Suomi NPP Cal/Val Campaign
Wednesday, 16 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Daniel K Zhou1, Xu Liu1, Allen M Larar2, Jialin Tian1, William L Smith3, Wan Wu4, Susan Kizer4, Mitch Goldberg5 and Quanhua Liu6, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (4)SSAI, INC, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)NOAA Camp Springs, Camp Springs, MD, United States, (6)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
ePoster
Abstract:
Satellite ultraspectral infrared sensors provide key data records essential for weather forecasting and climate change science. The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite Environmental Data Records (EDRs) are retrieved from calibrated ultraspectral radiance or Sensor Data Records (SDRs). Understand the accuracy of retrieved EDRs is critical. The first Suomi NPP Calibration/Validation Campaign was conducted during May 2013. The NASA high-altitude ER-2 aircraft carrying ultraspectral interferometer sounders such as the National Airborne Sounder Testbed-Interferometer (NAST-I) flew under the Suomi NPP satellite that carries the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) and the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS). Here, we inter-compare the EDRs produced with different retrieval algorithms from SDRs measured from satellite and aircraft. The available dropsonde and radiosonde measurements together with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) analysis are used to assess the results of this experiment.
