C44B:
Using the Satellite Microwave Radiometer Record for Climate Analyses: Past, Present, and the Future Looming Observation Gap I

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Session ID#: 34262

Session Description:
Since 1978, the scientific community has derived enormous benefit from satellite-borne passive microwave observations; derived records include the dramatic recent declining Arctic sea ice extent. Newly-processed NASA MEaSUREs Calibrated Enhanced-Resolution Brightness Temperature (CETB) ESDR data provide gridded enhanced-resolution (up to 3.125 km) passive microwave data, in addition to conventional 25-km grids, and include all data from each instrument, providing extensive periods of overlap. The CETB data will enable improved insights into the historical records of derived geophysical variables. This climate record is threatened – current satellites carrying microwave radiometers have no planned successors, and all are beyond their design life. New U.S., European and Japanese radiometers will not launch before 2022, and data from existing Chinese and Russian satellites have not been evaluated. This session will explore potential applications of CETB data, as well as options for addressing the threat to the continuity of passive microwave observations.
Primary Convener:  Molly Hardman, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States; National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  David W Gallaher, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Stan Wilson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Barton A Forman, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Chairs:  Molly Hardman, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, David W Gallaher, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Joan M Ramage, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mary J. Brodzik, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0794 Instruments and techniques [CRYOSPHERE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Looming Potential Gap in Microwave Imagery – How did we get here and what can we do about it? (256611)
W Stanley Wilson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Visiting Scientist, Baltimore, MD, United States and David W Gallaher, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Salvaging of the Final SSMIS Flight Unit for a Future Flight-of-Opportunity (218752)
David M. Tratt1, Donald J Boucher Jr.1, Eun-Sung Park1, Steven D Swadley2 and Gene Poe3, (1)Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States, (2)Naval Res Lab, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Science Applications International Corporation - SAIC, Monterey, CA, United States
Data Quality Assessment of FY-3C MWRI Microwave Imager from CMA, ECMWF and the Met Office (264130)
Qifeng Lu1, Shengli WU1, Fangli Dou1, Fenglin Sun1, Heather Lawrence2, Alan Geer2, Stephen English3, Stuart Newman4, William Bell4, Niels Bormann2 and Fabien Carminati4, (1)China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, (2)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Research, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)UKMO, Exeter, United Kingdom
Past, Current and Future of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Series (271838)
Misako Kachi1, Takashi Maeda2, Nodoka Ono1, Naoya Tomii2, Marehito Kasahara3, Masaaki Mokuno4 and Shinichi Sobue5, (1)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, SAMRAI Project Team, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Satellite Applications and Operations Center, Tsukuba, Japan, (4)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, (5)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan
The EUMETSAT Polar System - Second Generation (EPS-SG) micro-wave imaging (MWI) mission (269351)
Bojan R Bojkov, Christophe Accadia, Dieter Klaes, Alessio Canestri and Marc Cohen, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
Enhanced-Resolution Satellite Microwave Brightness Temperature Records for Mapping Boreal-Arctic Landscape Freeze-Thaw Heterogeneity (Invited) (207901)
Youngwook Kim1, Jinyang Du2 and John S Kimball2, (1)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, Missoula, United States
The performance of the new enhanced-resolution satellite passive microwave dataset applied for snow water equivalent estimation (Invited) (260192)
Jinmei Pan, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, CAS, Beijing, China, Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Lingmei Jiang, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China and Desheng Liu, The Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, United States
How will we ensure the long-term sea ice data record continues? (Invited) (253557)
Julienne Christine Stroeve, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Lars Kaleschke, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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