HR: 1340h
AN: A33A-0147    [Abstracts]
TI: A preliminary comparison of Aura MLS upper tropospheric humidity measurements with AIRS.
AU: * Read, W G
EM: bill@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, Ca 91109 United States
AU: Pumphrey, H C
EM: hcp@met.ed.ac.uk
AF: Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ United Kingdom
AU: Wu, D L
EM: dwu@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, Ca 91109 United States
AU: Jiang, J H
EM: jonathan@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, Ca 91109 United States
AU: Livesey, N J
EM: livesey@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, Ca 91109 United States
AU: Waters, J W
EM: joe@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, Ca 91109 United States
AU: Fetzer, E J
EM: Eric.J.Fetzer@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, Ca 91109 United States
AU: Olsen, E T
EM: Edward.T.Olsen@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, Ca 91109 United States
AB: MLS on the Aura spacecraft was launched 15 July 2004 and began science operations on 12 August 2004. The Aura satellite flies 15 minutes behind the Aqua satellite which contains the AIRS instrument. The close proximity of these measurements provides a continuous stream of near coincident upper tropospheric humidity profile measurements for validation and comparison. We will show some preliminary results from these comparisons for the first three months of Aura MLS humidity data.
DE: 1655 Water cycles (1836)
DE: 1640 Remote sensing
DE: 0365 Troposphere--composition and chemistry
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting