HR: 11:05h
AN: A52A-04 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Cloud Products: Moving from the Current to the NPOESS Era
AU: * Heidinger, A K
EM: heidinger@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: Andrew K Heidinger, NOAA-CIMSS 1225 West Dayton, Madison, WI 53706 United States
AU: Baum, B
EM: bryan.baum@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: Bryan Baum, NASA-CIMSS 1225 West Dayton, Madison, WI 53706 United States
AU: Weng, F
EM: Fuzhong.Weng@noaa.gov
AF: Fuzhong Weng, NOAA Science Center 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746 United States
AB: The NPOESS Era will see the replacement of all the current instruments on the national operational polar platforms with more advanced sensors that offer new capabilities for cloud remote sensing. For example, the 5 channel imager with a spatial resolution of 4 km will be replaced with a 22 channel imager with a spatial resolution of 0.75 km and the infrared sounder, which is currently a 20 channel radiometer, will be replaced by a hyper spectral interferometer. In addition, a conical scanning microwave imager will for the first time be flown operationally next to an advanced imager and hyper spectral sounder. This talk will give an overview of the new capabilities for cloud remote sensing during the NPOESS era. A review of the planned cloud products will be presented. The expected deficiencies in the cloud products derived from each sensor alone will be reviewed and the benefits of combining data from multiple NPOESS sensors for cloud remote sensing will be discussed. Lastly, initial results from an attempt to make physically consistent time series of cloud products NPOESS and its predecessor, POES, will be discussed.
DE: 0321 Cloud/radiation interaction
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005