Science Team Meeting Archive
NASA Sounder Science Team Meeting in Greenbelt, Maryland
April 24-26, 2012
Documents
Note: These AIRS presentations have not been subsequently revised or corrected, and therefore may contain occasional inaccuracies. All presentations are in PDF format. If a link is not active, we did not receive permission to post.
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Session 1: Introduction and Science Highlights - Chair: Tom Pagano
Joao Teixeira JPL
AIRS Science
Ramesh Kakar NASA HQ
Headquarters Perspective
Thomas Pagano JPL
AIRS Project Status and Future Application
Sharon Ray, Ed Olsen JPL
Denis Elliott JPL
AIRS/AMSU/Aqua Operations Update
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Session 2: Weather Forecasting - Chair: Joao Teixeira
Bob Atlas NOAA
NOAA's Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project
Bradley Zavodsky MSFC
Transition of AIRS Products to National Weather Service
Hank Revercomb Univ of Wisconsin
Performance of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) on Suomi NPP
Dave Santek Univ of Wisconsin
Using AIRS Moisture Retrieval Data to Derive Atmospheric Motion Vectors
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Session 3: Temperature and Water Vapor Processes - Chair: Eric Fetzer
Paul Dimotakis Caltech/JPL
Baijun Tian JPL
Intraseasonal temperature variability in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere from the GPS RO and AIRS Instruments
Joel Susskind GSFC
AIRS products explain the close relationship between OLR anomalies and the El Nino Index
Panagiotis Vergadoes JPL
Exploring the complementary nature of AIRS and GPS observational data to retrieve tropospheric water vapor
Baijun Tian JPL
Evaluating CMIP5 models using AIRS observations
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Session 4: Climate - Chair: George Aumann
Yuk Yung Caltech
Principle modes of variability in the tropics from 9 years of AMSU data
George Aumann JPL
Nino34 correlations and implications for climate trend detection
Larrabee Strow UMBC
Comparison of AIRS Radiance PDF's with ERA Re-analysis Simulated PDFs
Alexander Ruzmaikin JPL
Trends in tropical circulation over the Pacific in the last decade (based on AIRS)
Alexandre Guillaume JPL
A deterministic annealing approach to clustering AIRS data
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Session 5: Cloud Processes - Chair: Brian Kahn
Brian Kahn JPL
New AIRS Version 6 cloud top retrievals of ice cloud properties and thermodynamic phase
Dong Wu GSFC
Studying global cloud morphology and variations with AIRS cloudcleared radiances (CCRs)
Mathias Schreier JPL
Statistical moments of subtropical cloud transition: Observations of AIRS+MODIS in comparison to ERA-r0
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Session 6: NPP CrIMSS Calibration and Validation - Chair: Bjorn Lambrigtsen
Denis Tremblay NOAA-STAR
NOAA-STAR CRIS SDR Calibration and Validation: Preliminary Results
Murty Divakarla NOAA
Preliminary evaluation of NPP-CrIMSS Edrs with Heritage Algorithm (Aqua-AIRS) Retrievals
Michael Starch JPL
NPP Sounder PEATE Operations Overview
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Session 7: V6 Atmospheric Composition - Chair: Ed Olsen
Ed Olsen JPL
AIRS V6 CO2 retrieval development
Hai Nguyen JPL
Geospatial interpolation of AIRS mid-tropospheric CO2
Xun Jiang University of Houston
Variations of AIRS CO2 in the High Latitudes
Junjie Liu JPL
Analysis of AIRS CO2 sensitivity to surface CO2 flux using GEOSchem adjoint model
Andy Tangborn UMBC
Assimilation of AIRS CO2 retrievals from 2 distinct wavelengths
Tom Pagano JPL
Influence of global vegetation on mid-tropospheric CO2: early results
Eric Maddy NOAA
On the effects of dust on AIRS and IASI Operational L2 Products
Xiaozhen Xiong NOAA
Status of AIRS Version 6 CH4 testing and validation
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Session 8: V6 Development Status and Tools - Chair: Steve Friedman
Steve Friedman JPL
V6 Summary Status and Schedule
Thomas Hearty GSFC
Preparation for Version 6 and New Features at the GES-DISC
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Session 9: V6 Product Testing and Validation - Chair: Bjorn Lambrigtsen
Van Dang JPL
An Overview of the AIRS V6 Testing Results
Bill Blackwell MIT
Recent validation results from the SCC/NN algorithm
Joel Susskind GSFC
SRT Evaluation of AIRS Science Team Version 6.02 products
Bill Irion JPL
Biases and bias trends of AIRS temperatures compared to PrepQCsonds
Sun Wong JPL
Testing AIRS V6 temperature and water vapor products using dedicated sondes and MERRA
Glynn Hully JPL
AIRS V6 Land Surface Products Assessment
Larrabee Strow UMBC
Evaluation of V6 cloud-cleared radiances and L2 error covariances
Qing Yue JPL
Testing the AIRS V6 Convection Parameters
Bjorn Lambrigtsen JPL
V6 microwave test results
Eric Fetzer JPL
Plans for version 5 and 6 Validation, and the ATBD
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Session 10: Instrument Calibration - Chair: Denis Elliott
Steve Broberg JPL
Channel Recovery Results
George Aumann JPL
L1B Trends Using Obs Minus Calc
