Science Team Meeting Archive
October 14-17, 2008
Session 1: Introduction
Moustafa Chahine - JPL - Welcome and Introduction
Ramesh Kakar - NASA HQ - NASA Atmospheric Sounding Program
Chris Barnet - NOAA - CrIS/IASAI Status at NOAA
Claire Parkingson - GSFC - Status of Aqua
Session 2: AIRS Hyperspectral IR Science - George Aumann, Chair
Brian Kahn - JPL - A Global Climatology of Temperature and Water Vapor Variance Scaling from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Gyula Molnar - GSFC - Validation of AIRS Spatial Trends of Temperature, OLR, and Cloud Cover
Ramesh Singh - George Mason University - Use of AIRS Data in Understanding Land-Ocean Atmosphere Coupling
Session 3: Trace Gas Products & Science I - Bill Irion, Chair
Breno Imbiriba - UMBC - AIRS Tropospheric CO2/CH4 Retrievals
Jasna Pittman/Laura Pan - UCAR - Evaluating Trace Gas Measurements from AIRS and IASI using In Situ Measurements from the NSF/NCAR HIAPER Aircraft
Wallace McMillan - UMBC - CO V5 Validation Update: What's next?
Session 4: EPO and Data Support
Sharon Ray - JPL - AIRS Outreach
Mike Theobald - GSFC - GES DISC Data Operations and Services
Andrey Savtchenko - GSFC - Simple AIRS Applications at GES DISC
Session 5: Data Assimilation - Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Chair
Tony McNally - ECMWF - ECMWF Update: AIRS and IASI Data
Ed Pavelin & Steven English - UK Met Office - UK Met Office Update
Eugenia Kalnay - UMD - LETKF Assimilation of AIRS Humidity Retrievals and Preliminary Results of Assimilation of AIRS/AMSU Radiances
Brad Zavodsky - NASA Huntsville - Regional Data Assimilation of AIRS Profiles and Radiances at the SPoRT Center
Bryan Baum - Univ of Wisconsin - Recent Advances in the Development of Ice Cloud Bulk Scattering and Absorption Models for Use With Hyperspectral IR Data
Jim Jung - NASA - IASI Water Vapor Radiance Assimilation Experiments
Oreste Reale - GSFC - AIRS Impact on Global Analysis and Forecast in the Tropics: The Case of Cyclone Nargis
Session 6: Trace Gas Products & Science II - Bill Irion, Chair
Robert K. Vincent - Bowling Green University - Critical Need for Quantitative Images of Lower Tropospheric Methane Content Along Continental Slopes (Offshore) and In
Xiaozhen Xiong - NOAA - Update of NOAA AIRS Methane Retrieval, Validation and Usage
Leonid Yurganov - UMBC - AIRS Methane Data for Siberia: Present and Future
Sergio DeSouza-Machado - UMBC - AIRS Dust Retrieval Intercomparisons with MODIS, Parasol, OMI and Calipso
Fred Prata - Norweigan Air Research - Exploiting High Spectral Resolution Satellite Data for Studies of Volcanic Emissions: AIRS and IASI Retrievals of SO2, and Fine Ash
Session 7: Temperature and Water Vapor Validation - Joao Teixeira, Chair
Joao Teixeira - JPL - Validation Plan Status / Validation of AIRS Boundary Layer Structure in the Trade-Wind Region
Mitch Goldberg - NOAA Global Space-Based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) Activities
Murty Divakarla - NOAA - Aqua-AIRS and MetOP-IASI Temperature and Water Vapor Retrievals - Evaluation with Global RAOBs and Model Forecasts
John Forsythe - Colorado State - The NVAP Global Water Vapor Climate Data Record: Plans for Improvement and Extension from 1987-2010
David Whiteman - NASA - Satellite Validation and Related Activities at the Howard University Beltsville Campus
Glynn Hulley - JPL - Understanding the Differences between AIRS, MODIS and ASTER Land Surface Emissivity Products
Nick Nalli - NOAA - RB-08-03 Interhemispheric Transit Cruise Summary
Session 8: NPP CrIS/ATMS, Cal/Val Plans - Chris Barnet, Chair
Gail Bingham - Utah State - CrIS SDR Cal/Val Plan
Chris Barnet - NOAA - CrIS EDR Cal/Val Plan
Session 9: NPP CrIS/ATMS Readiness - Chris Barnet, Chair
Denise Hagan - NGST - Status of CrIS Pre-Launch Calibration
Larrabee Strow - UMBC - CrIS Spectral Cal
David Staelin - MIT - AMSU Observations of Arctic Precipitation and Global Sets of Rain Gauges: Implications for ATMS and NPP
Sid Boukabara - NOAA - Microwave Sounding in All-Weather Conditions and Plans for ATMS
Stephen Beck - Aerospace Corp. - DMSP SSMIS Cal/Val Work
Lars Peter Riishojgaard - NASA - JCSDA Plans for Cal/Val of CrIS and ATMS on NPP
Joel Susskind - GSFC - Generation and Analysis of CrIS ATMS Proxy Data
Nikita Pougatchev - SDL - CrIS EDR Validation Assessment Model: Test Case Study using IASI and AIRS Retrievals
Session 10: AIRS/IASI/CrIS Accuracy for Climate - George Aumann, Chair
Hank Revercomb - UW - Radiance Accuracy Assessments of AIRS, IASI and CrIS with Implications for the CLARREO Mission
Larrabee Strow - UMBC - IASI and AIRS Radiance Intercomparisons
Session 11: NASA NPP Data Systems - George Aumann, Chair
Bob Schweiss - GSFC - SDS Status
Session 12: AIRS Calibration
Larrabee Strow - UMBC - LIC, Freq. Cal. And RTA
Session 13: Version 6 Status and Plans
Evan Manning - JPL - Assessing the Skill of Retrieval Algorithms
Joel Susskind - GSFC - Status and Plans for V6
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