C51D:
Forty Years of Eyes on the Planet: An Uninterrupted Record of Earth Remote Sensing with Satellite Passive Microwave Instruments Posters


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Session ID#: 51227

Session Description:
This year marks the 40thanniversary of the beginning of continuous multi-channel passive microwave remote sensing of the earth system. Starting in October 1978 with the launch of the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU), there has been at least one multi-channel passive microwave imager and sounder in orbit. This has allowed several international groups to help produce consistent long-term climate records of geophysical parameters spanning several key climate parameters, including: sea ice, ice sheets, snow, soil moisture, soil freeze/thaw state, atmospheric temperature profiles, integrated water vapor over oceans, precipitation, ocean winds, and sea surface temperature. We invite contributions on scientific results from earth-observing satellite passive microwave remote sensing. Potential topics include: long-term climate records from the instruments, innovative new data sets or techniques, integration with other data sources (ground, airborne, or satellite) for improved retrievals, and use in models (for initialization, validation, or assimilation).
Primary Convener:  Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Carl A Mears, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, Ralph R Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, United States and Thomas T Wilheit Jr, Texas A & M Univ, Hendersonville, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Ralph R Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, United States and Thomas T Wilheit Jr, Texas A & M Univ, Hendersonville, NC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Co-Organized with:
Cryosphere, Atmospheric Sciences, Global Environmental Change, Hydrology, and Ocean Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A 31+ Year Data Record of Intercalibrated Brightness Temperatures from Satellite Passive Microware Sensors Developed for Global Precipitation Retrievals (373083)
Wesley K Berg, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and PMM XCAL Intercalibration Team
Spatial and temporal trends in melt season lengths for Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves from 1978-2018 from passive microwave measurements (375147)
Andrew Carl Johnson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Mark A Fahnestock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States and Regine Hock, University of OSLO, Oslo, Norway
Removing ice volume scattering from SSM/I TB for ice surface temperature retrieval (384943)
B.J. Sohn1, Sang-Moo Lee2 and Hoyeon Shi2, (1)Seoul National Univ, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Estimate wind and rain rate inside tropical cyclone using space-borne C- and X- band passive microwave radiometer measurements (384985)
Xiaobin Yin and Qingliu Bao, Beijing PIESAT Information Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China
Thirty-year Arctic sea ice temperature record from FCDR SSM/I and SSMIS brightness temperature (384991)
Sang-Moo Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), B.J. Sohn, Seoul National Univ, Seoul, South Korea and Christian Kummerow, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
Highlights of Scientific Research Over Oceans Using Microwave Radiometers (400801)
W. Timothy Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Xiaosu Xie, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
CREATING A CONSISTENT OCEANIC MULTI-DECADAL INTERCALIBRATED TRMM-GPM CONSTELLATION DATA RECORD (408332)
Ruiyao Chen and W. Linwood Jones, University of Central Florida, Central Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory, Orlando, FL, United States
Understanding AMSR-2 Brightness Temperatures Characterizations over U.S.A in the Presence/Absence of Radio Frequency Interference Contaminations (426914)
Dingkun Phillip Yan, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Wei Li, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, United States, Nan Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, Union City, NJ, United States and Yongzhen Fan, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, United States
Comparisons of Microwave Sounder Calibration and Precipitation Long-Term Trends from AMSU-B, MHS, and ATMS (438500)
Rachael Kroodsma, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Passive microwave precipitation measurements for tropical cyclones based on a priori databases including various cloud microphysics schemes (440783)
Dong-Bin Shin1, Yeji Choi2, Min-Su Joh3 and Jiseob Kim1, (1)Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, (3)KISTI Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Disaster Management HPC Technology Research Center, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Cloud Tolerant Observations of the Diurnal Land Surface Temperature and Their Utility for Soil Moisture and Evaporation Retrieval (440814)
Thomas R Holmes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Office, Huntsville, United States
Estimating the uncertainty of sea ice extents in the forty-year passive microwave climate record (442055)
J Scott Stewart, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States and Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Regional Variability of Arctic Sea Ice Seasonal Change Climate Indicators from a Passive Microwave Climate Data Record (450497)
Michael Steele, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Angela C Bliss, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ge Peng, NC State University and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, North Carolina (CICS-NC), Asheville, NC, United States, Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Suzanne Dickinson, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
The Scaling Relationship Between Tropospheric Temperature and Total Column Water Vapor Measured by Passive Microwave Satellite Sensors. (454537)
Carl A Mears and Frank J Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
Three Decades of Air-Sea Essential Climate Variables (AS-ECV) from Satellite Microwave Radiometers (455199)
Frank J Wentz, Katherine Faye Wentz, Carl A Mears, Lucrezia Ricciardulli and Thomas Meissner, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
The need for the measurement response function (MRF) for optimal deconvolution of AMSR-E SSTs (461336)
Brahim Boussidi, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, Peter C Cornillon, Univ Rhode Island, Physical Oceanography, Narragansett, United States and Gavino Puggioni, University of Rhode Island, Computer Science and Statistics, Kingston, RI, United States
A Next Generation Microwave Instrument for Cold Water Salinity Measurement (462816)
Sidharth Misra1, Isaac Ramos1, Carl Felten2, Javier Bosch-Lluis3, Shannon Thomas Brown4, Simon H Yueh5, Barron Latham6 and Tong Lee5, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)JPL, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Temporal Variability of Arctic Sea Ice Melt and Freeze Season Climate Indicators Using a Satellite Passive Microwave Climate Data Record (349259)
Ge Peng, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Raleigh, NC, United States, Michael Steele, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States, Angela C Bliss, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Suzanne Dickinson, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
A 38+ year record of Arctic sea ice melt onset from satellite passive microwave observations (352640)
Angela C Bliss, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Mark R Anderson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States
A 40-year Sea Ice Product Standardized by AMSR Series Passive Microwave Radiometers (399499)
Mieko Seki, Remote Sensing Technology Center, Tsukuba, Japan, Masahiro Hori, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan, Kazuhiro Naoki, Tokai University, Research and Information Center, Tokyo, Japan, Misako Kachi, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, EORC, Tsukuba, Japan and Keiji Imaoka, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan

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