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TI: Land Surface Product Validation Using the DOE ARM Southern Great Plains Site
AU: * Knuteson, R
EM: robert.knuteson@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: Uni. of Wisconsin - Madison, Space Science & Engineering Ctr 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706 United States
AU: Revercomb, H
EM: hankr@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: Uni. of Wisconsin - Madison, Space Science & Engineering Ctr 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706 United States
AU: Tobin, D
EM: davet@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: Uni. of Wisconsin - Madison, Space Science & Engineering Ctr 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706 United States
AU: Osborne, B
EM: briano@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: Uni. of Wisconsin - Madison, Space Science & Engineering Ctr 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706 United States
AB: The University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center (UW-SSEC) is making use of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE ARM) program Southern Great Plains (SGP) site for validation of NASA EOS land surface products. The DOE ARM site covers a 250 km square region that includes most of Oklahoma and southern Kansas. The site is dominated by a mixture of vegetation and bare soil with a vegetation fraction that changes with the growing season. The land use is divided between cattle ranching (permanent pasture) and wheat farming (seasonal). The DOE ARM site provides routine state-of-the-art vertical profile measurements of the atmospheric state. Special radiosonde launches have been conducted by DOE ARM to coincide with overpasses of the NASA Aqua platform. The UW-SSEC has provided ground truth measurements of surface characteristics using a mobile research vehicle (the AERIbago) during several aircraft field campaigns. The UW-SSEC Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS) has provided high altitude observations of the thermal infrared spectrum for comparison to satellite observations. Coincident measurements of ground-based and aircraft observations with AIRS and MODIS satellite observations have been obtained during TX-2001, TX-2002, and IHOP. Preliminary land surface products from AIRS will be compared with MODIS land products and the validation measurements obtained from aircraft and ground-based sensors.
UR: http://airs3.ssec.wisc.edu/~airs/lste
DE: 3322 Land/atmosphere interactions
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting