Early results from AIRS/AMSU/HSB

Joel Susskind; Christopher Barnet; John Blaisdell; Lena Iredell; Fricky Keita; Louis Kouvaris

doi:10.1117/12.506316

10 November 2003 Early results from AIRS/AMSU/HSB

Joel Susskind, Christopher Barnet, John Blaisdell, Lena Iredell, Fricky Keita, Louis Kouvaris

Proceedings Volume 5151, Earth Observing Systems VIII; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506316
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

AIRS was launched on EOS Aqua on May 5 2002, together with AMSU A and HSB, to form a next generation polar orbiting infrared and microwave atmospheric sounding system. The primary products of AIRS/AMSU/HSB are twice daily global fields of atmospheric temperature-humidity profiles, ozone profiles, sea/land surface skin temperature, and cloud related parameters including OLR. The sounding goals of AIRS are to produce 1 km tropospheric layer mean temperatures with an rms error of 1K, and layer precipitable water with an rms error of 20%, in cases with up to 80% effective cloud cover. Pre-launch simulation studies indicated that these results should be achievable. Minor modifications have been made to the pre-launch retrieval algorithm as described in this paper. Sample fields of parameters retrieved from AIRS/AMSU/HSB data are presented and validated as a function of retrieved fractional cloud cover. As in simulation, the degradation of retrieval accuracy with increasing cloud cover is small. Select fields are also compared to those contained in the ECMWF analysis, done without the benefit of AIRS data, to demonstrate information that AIRS can add to that already contained in the ECMWF analysis.

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Joel Susskind, Christopher Barnet, John Blaisdell, Lena Iredell, Fricky Keita, and Louis Kouvaris "Early results from AIRS/AMSU/HSB", Proc. SPIE 5151, Earth Observing Systems VIII, (10 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506316

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