C53B:
Forty Years of Eyes on the Planet: An Uninterrupted Record of Earth Remote Sensing with Satellite Passive Microwave Instruments I


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Session ID#: 60477

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:  Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Carl A Mears, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Co-Organized with:
Cryosphere, 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:

Long-term Water and Climate Observations by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) Series: AMSR-E, AMSR2 and AMSR2 Follow-on (403019)
Misako Kachi1, Hideyuki Fujii1, Takashi Maeda2, Nodoka Ono1, Marehito Kasahara3 and Naoto Ebuchi1,4, (1)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Satellite System Development Office, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Satellite Applications and Operations Center, Tsukuba, Japan, (4)Hokkaido University, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Sapporo, Japan
Lessons Learned in Building Long-Term Multi-Satellite Global Precipitation Records (380493)
Eric Nelkin1,2, George John Huffman3, David T Bolvin2,3 and Jackson Tan1,4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States
Development of a Long-term Consistent Satellite Record of Soil Moisture (434875)
Steven Chan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Rajat Bindlish, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Towards More Accurate Snow Water Equivalent Products Based on Passive Microwave Retrievals (379925)
Lawrence Mudryk1, Chris Derksen1, Kari Luojus2 and Ross Brown3, (1)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Reseach Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (3)Environment Canada @ OURANOS Inc., Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Annomalies and Trends in the Sea Ice Cover from 40 years of Passive Microwave Data (Invited) (349579)
Josefino C Comiso, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Walter Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States
Satellite Observation and Climate Model Simulation of Global Warming Process (Invited) (346389)
Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, United States

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