HR: 1330h
AN: H32B-0551    [PDF]
TI: AMSR Validation Program
AU: * Lobl, E S
EM: elena.lobl@msfc.nasa.gov
AF: University of Alabama in Huntsville/National Space Science and Technology Center, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805 United States
AB: AMSR and AMSR-E are passive microwave radiometers built by NASDA in Japan. AMSR flies on ADEOS II, launched December 14 2001, and AMSR-E flies on NASA's Aqua satellite, launched May 4 2001. The Science teams in both countries have developed algorithms to retrieve different atmospheric parameters from the data obtained by these radiometers. The US Science team has developed a Validation plan that involved several campaigns. In fact most of these campaign have taken place this year: 2003, nicknamed the "Golden Year" for AMSR Validation. The first campaign started in January 2003 with the Extra-tropical precipitation campaign, followed by IOP3 for Cold Lands Processes Experiment (CLPX) in Colorado. After the change out of some of the instruments, the Validation program continued with the Arctic Sea Ice campaign based in Alaska, and followed by CLPX IOP 4, back in Colorado. Soil Moisture EXperiment 03 (SMEX03) started in late June in Alabama and Georgia, and then completed in Oklahoma mid-July. The last campaign in this series is AMSR Antarctic Sea Ice (AASI)/SMEX in Brazil. The major goals of each campaign, and very preliminary data will be shown. Most of these campaigns were in collaboration with the Japanese AMSR scientists.
DE: 1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325)
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting