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AN: H32B-0576    [PDF]
TI: Examination of AIRS Validation Data
AU: * Schauer, A G
EM: schauer@osb.wff.nasa.gov
AF: Raytheon ITSS, NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes Code 972.0, Wallops Island, VA 23337 United States
AU: Schmidlin, F J
EM: schmidlin@osb.wff.nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes, Code 972.0, Wallops Island, VA 23337 United States
AB: Since June 2002, the Upper Air Instrumentation and Research Programs (UAIRP) group located at NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia has been conducting regular correlative measurements for Aqua/Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) validation. Balloon-born instrumentation includes: electrochemical concentration cells (ECC) to determine ozone distribution, chilled mirror hygrometers to measure relative humidity, accurate temperature measurement radiosonde (ATM) for temperature measurements and accompanying standard radiosonde data. Each of these methods yields results with roughly ten meter vertical resolution. These measurements have been obtained approximately weekly at Wallops Island, Virginia, Natal, Brazil, and Ascension Island. Additional measurements have been taken during limited campaigns at Andoya, Norway and Andros Island, the Bahamas. The validation data is compared to AIRS retrieved measurements of ozone, humidity, and temperature. Differences in the data sets are examined for spatial, temporal, and seasonal dependencies.
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
DE: 0399 General or miscellaneous
DE: 1899 General or miscellaneous
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting