HR: 10:20h
AN: A52A-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System: Capabilities for Atmospheric Remote Sensing for NWP and Climate -- Moving Towards a Global Earth Observation System of Systems
AU: * Mango, S A
EM: Stephen.Mango@noaa.gov
AF: NPOESS Integrated Program Office, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1450, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3320 United States
AU: Hinnant, F
EM: Frank.Hinnant@noaa.gov
AF: NPOESS Integrated Program Office, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1450, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3320 United States
AU: Hoffman, C W
EM: Carl.Hoffman@noaa.gov
AF: NPOESS Integrated Program Office, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1450, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3320 United States
AU: Smehil, D L
EM: Dean.Smehil@noaa.gov
AF: NPOESS Integrated Program Office, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1450, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3320 United States
AU: Schneider, S R
EM: Stanley.Schneider@noaa.gov
AF: NPOESS Integrated Program Office, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1450, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3320 United States
AU: Simione, S
EM: Steve.Simione@noaa.gov
AF: NPOESS Integrated Program Office, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1450, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3320 United States
AU: Needham, B
EM: Bruce.Needham@noaa.gov
AF: NPOESS Integrated Program Office, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1450, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3320 United States
AU: Stockton, D
EM: Dan.Stockton@noaa.gov
AF: NPOESS Integrated Program Office, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 1450, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3320 United States
AB: Over the last decade, the tri-agency Integrated Program Office (IPO), comprised of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has been managing the development of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). Once operational later this decade, NPOESS will replace NOAA's Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) and DoD's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) systems. The IPO, through its Acquisition and Operations contractor, Northrop Grumman, will launch NPOESS spacecraft into three orbital planes to provide a single, national system capable of satisfying both civil and national security requirements for space-based, remotely sensed environmental data. With the development of NPOESS, we are evolving the existing "weather" satellites into integrated environmental observing systems by expanding our capabilities to observe, assess, and predict the total Earth system - ocean, atmosphere, land, and the space environment. The NPOESS will enable more accurate short-term weather forecasts and severe storm warnings and improved monitoring of atmospheric phenomena. NPOESS will also provide continuity of critical data for monitoring, understanding, and predicting climate change and assessing the impacts of climate change on seasonal and longer time scales. For these purposes, the NPOESS Integrated Program Office [IPO] is developing a suite of advanced, atmospheric sounding/probing instruments as a major part of the next generation meteorological, environmental and climate operational satellite system in polar, low earth orbit [LEO]. The IPO is developing the CrIS, Cross-track Infrared Sounder, an Ozone Mapping & Profiler Suite [OMPS]and a Visible and Infrared Imager and Radiometer Suite [VIIRS] and NASA is developing an Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder [ATMS]. These four instruments will be key parts of the NPOESS operational satellite system and its precursor, bridging and risk-reduction mission - the NPOESS Preparatory Project [NPP]. The CrIS/ATMS/OMPS (& VIIRS) and, later on NPOESS, a Conical-scanning Microwave Imager and Sounder [CMIS] will represent a USA highly capable, complementary sounding and imaging suite for the next generation. In the same time frame the European community, EUMETSAT, European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellite Systems, will be flying their next generation, operational, polar-orbiting LEO system, METOP. METOP will have a highly capable FTS sounder, IASI [Infrared Atmospheric Sounder Interferometer], an Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit [AMSU], a Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment [GOME-2], a GNSS Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding [GRAS]and an Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer [AVHRR]. The NPOESS & METOP sounders and imagers will represent a significant contribution to a polar-orbiting, atmospheric sounding and imaging component of an emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems [GEOSS] for NWP and Climate. Similarly the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite System [GOES-R] & Meteosat Second Generation [MSG] sounders and imagers will represent an important geostationary component of such a GEOSS.
UR: http://www.ipo.noaa.gov
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 1640 Remote sensing (1855)
DE: 3300 ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005