HR: 1340h
AN: A23A-0933    [Abstracts]
TI: Evaluation of vertically resolved water winds from AIRS using Hurricane Katrina
AU: * Aumann, H H
EM: aumann@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AB: The knowledge of wind velocity as function of altitude is key to weather forecast improvements. The ability of hyperspectral sounders in principle to measure vertically resolved water winds, which has long been recognized, has been tested with AIRS data. AIRS retrievals of total column water above 300 mb have been correlated with the Radiosonde upper-tropospheric wind velocity and moisture data. The excellent correlation is illustrated with results obtained from hurricane Katrina. AIRS is a hyperspectral infrared sounders in low Earth orbit. It was launched in May 2002.
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325)
DE: 3334 Middle atmosphere dynamics (0341, 0342)
DE: 4528 Fronts and jets
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005