A43J:
A-Train Constellation: 10 Years of Multiplatform Scientific Achievements I

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Session ID#: 16117

Session Description:
The A-Train recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. This session will highlight how Earth science has benefitted from the long and growing multi-sensor data records to better understand Earth’s changing environment and climate. The session will highlight science advances that have resulted through the combination of measurements from the A-Train in understanding many complex and connected processes in the atmosphere, ocean and land. The unprecedented and extensive collection of multi-year, multi-satellite observations continues to provide a unique resource for improving and validating climate and weather models and enables longer-term scientific studies, including analyses of inter-annual variability and long-term trends.

The Session will entertain presentations on

· Atmospheric composition and chemistry,

· Aerosols, clouds, radiation, and the hydrological cycle,

· Atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial components of the carbon cycle,

· Weather and other operational applications,

and will give preference to studies that emphasize cross-disciplinary science advances realized through the A-Train multi-sensor system.

Primary Convener:  Graeme L Stephens, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David M Winker, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Deborah G Vane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  David M Winker, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Deborah G Vane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Graeme L Stephens, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0319 Cloud optics [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The A-Train: A Unique View of the Earth System (125607)
Graeme L Stephens, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Evaluating uncertainty in a multi-decadal microwave data record of cloud liquid water (156085)
Matthew D Lebsock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Thomas J Greenwald, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Kyle Hilburn, Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States, Gregory Elsaesser, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, United States and Christopher O'Dell, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
An A-train climatology of extratropical cyclone clouds and precipitation (125678)
Catherine M Naud, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, James F Booth, CUNY City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Science, New York, United States, Anthony D Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Derek J Posselt, University of California, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
A Multi-Sensor Water Vapor, Temperature and Cloud Climate Data Record from the A-Train (165676)
Eric J Fetzer1, Qing Yue2, Sun Wong1, Alexandre Guillaume3, Robert Alan Stachnik4, Tao Wang5, Gerald Manipon1, Brian H Kahn1, Brian D Wilson6 and Hook Hua1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
The stratospheric changes inferred from 10 years of AIRS and AMSU-A radiances (147521)
Fang Pan1, Prof. Xianglei Huang1, Stephen Sylvain Leroy2, Pu Lin3, Yi Ming4 and V Ramaswamy5, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Lexington, MA, United States, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (4)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)NOAA/OAR/ GFDL, Princeton, United States
New Insight into Polar Stratospheric Cloud Processes from A-Train Observations (150823)
Michael C Pitts, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Lamont Rozelle Poole, Science Systems & Appl., Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
2015 Indonesian fire activity and smoke pollution show persistent non-linear sensitivity to El Niño-induced drought (156239)
Robert D Field1, Guido van der Werf2, Thierry Fanin3, Eric J Fetzer4, Ryan A Fuller5, Hiren T Jethva6, Robert C Levy7, Nathaniel J Livesey8, Ming Luo4, Omar Torres9 and Helen Marie Worden10, (1)Columbia University of New York, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (7)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, (8)University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder, CO, United States
The First Decade of Global Lidar Observations: Lessons Learned, Challenges for the Future (197284)
David M Winker, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States

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