HR: 0800h
AN: A51B-0766    [Abstracts]
TI: AIRS Cloud Products: Comparisons of AIRS VIS, AIRS IR, ARM and MODIS
AU: * Eldering, A
EM: Annmarie.Eldering@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Caltech/ Jet Propoulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: * Eldering, A
EM: Annmarie.Eldering@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: UCLA Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, 7127 Math Sciences Box 951565, Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States
AU: Kahn, B H
EM: briank@cloud.atmos.ucla.edu
AF: Caltech/ Jet Propoulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Kahn, B H
EM: briank@cloud.atmos.ucla.edu
AF: UCLA Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, 7127 Math Sciences Box 951565, Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States
AU: Fetzer, E J
EM: Eric.J.Fetzer@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Caltech/ Jet Propoulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Bruegge, C J
EM: Carol.J.Bruegge@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Caltech/ Jet Propoulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Braverman, A J
EM: Amy.J.Braverman@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Caltech/ Jet Propoulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Hearty, T J
EM: Thomas.J.Hearty@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Caltech/ Jet Propoulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AB: The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) experiment on NASA's Earth Observing System Aqua spacecraft is a combination of infrared and microwave instruments designed for remote sensing of the atmosphere in the presence of clouds. The instruments and associated ground-based processing system have been in near full-time operation since September 2002, and have generated over 300,000 retrievals daily. The primary retrieved products are daily global fields of surface temperature, cloud height and fraction, and height-resolved humidity, temperature and minor gases. This work will focus on the cloud products from AIRS. We will show comparisons of the cloud fraction as seen in AIRS visible and infrared data and compare the cloud heights from AIRS retrievals with those reported in the ARM cloud lidar data. In addition, cloud parameters from MODIS will be compared with those from the AIRS retrieval. This work will illustrate cloud types where there is consistency among the measurements, and situations where the instrument's different sensitivities are more apparent.
DE: 3360 Remote sensing
DE: 3394 Instruments and techniques
DE: 3300 METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting