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AN: A41B-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Studying Role of Dust in Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions Using Giovanni
AU: * Leptoukh, G
EM: Gregory.Leptoukh@nasa.gov
AF: NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: Mao, J
EM: jmao@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA / RS Information Systems, 1651 Old Meadow Rd, McLean, VA 22102, United States
AB: For dust events, properties of aerosols, clouds, water vapor, precipitation, and other atmospheric parameters measured by Terra MODIS and Aqua MODIS, TRMM, AIRS, Aura OMI, and other space-based remote sensing instruments are studied. More specifically, spatio-temporal correlations using available daily data are computed using Giovanni (http:giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov), the NASA Goddard online visualization and analysis tool. Also, the high resolution data from CloudSat and CALIPSO, are used to study vertical structure of dust events. In addition, sea surface temperature measured by Aqua MODIS and ocean color data measured by SeaWiFS and Aqua MODIS, are studied in relevance to the above atmospheric parameters. Giovanni is demonstrated to serve as a very convenient online tool for this inter-disciplinary multi-sensor field of studying how dust affects atmospheric processes and marine environment.
UR: http:giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov
DE: 0345 Pollution: urban and regional (0305, 0478, 4251)
DE: 0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions (0315)
DE: 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 4801 Aerosols (0305, 4906)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly