Primary Conveners: Isaac Moradi, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center - CICS-MD, University of Maryland, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation - NOAA, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners: Thomas S Pagano, California Institute of Techno, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kurtis Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Xiaoxiong Xiong, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs: Isaac Moradi, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Thomas S Pagano, California Institute of Techno, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Isaac Moradi, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
The NOAA Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS): Recent Science Improvements and Validation Results (72920)
Christopher Grassotti1,2, Xiwu Zhan2, Sid Ahmed Boukabara3, Mohar Chattopadhyay2, Craig K Smith4, Tanvir Islam5 and James E Davies6, (1)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (2)NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, JCSDA, College Park, MD, United States, (4)ERT, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States
Comparison of the Variability of Precipitation and Column Water Vapor Between Satellite Data and Model Simulations (68425)
Xun Jiang1, Angela Kao1, Liming Li2 and Yuk L Yung3, (1)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Department of Physics, Houston, TX, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Validation of Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's OMI Water Vapor Product (73249)
Huiqun Wang1, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad2, Xiong Liu2 and Kelly Chance3, (1)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Harvard-Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, United States
Assessing Landsat 8 TIRS Calibration Stability Using MODIS (83598)
Brian N Wenny1, Amit Angal1, Jake Brinkmann1, Matthew Montanaro2, Kurtis Thome3 and Xiaoxiong Xiong3, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Training and Validation of the Fast PCRTM_Solar Model (79531)
Qiguang Yang1, Xu Liu1, Wan Wu2, Ping Yang3 and Chenxi Wang4, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)SSAI, INC, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Satellite EDR Evaluation with First Suomi NPP Cal/Val Campaign (61037)
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
Retrieving and validating Soil Moisture from Microwave Satellite Data (62718)
Mozhdeh Jamei1, Mohammad Mousavi Baygi1, Isaac Moradi2,3, Amin Alizadeh1 and Parviz Irannejad4, (1)Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, water resources, Mashhad, Iran, (2)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center - CICS-MD, University of Maryland, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation - NOAA, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Tehran University, Tehran, Iran