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Download or read book Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS). written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), an instrument that makes measurements of the Earth's atmosphere and surface to assist scientists in observing climate changes and making weather predictions. Recounts the history of AIRS. Provides information about meetings and papers of the science team, as well as listing the members. Offers access to the AIRS Educational Outreach Program and visible and infrared photographic images.
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Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book AIRS/AMSU/HSB written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book AIRS written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 2002* with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Hildebrand
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Download or read book Validation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (airs) Data Using Gps Dropsondes written by Edward Hildebrand and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vertical structures of tropospheric temperature and moisture over the oceans have not been well observed to date. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) aboard NASA2s Aqua satellite offers the opportunity to provide observed soundings of these variables. This thesis focuses on the validation and application of AIRS soundings in the tropical troposphere over the Atlantic Ocean, with emphasis on the Saharan Air Layer (SAL). SAL outbreaks occur every few days, producing a warm air mass that is particularly dry at the middle levels. These westward-propagating plumes inhibit convection and are thereby thought to possess a detrimental effect on African easterly waves and tropical cyclones (TCs). First, AIRS soundings are compared with concurrent Global Positioning System (GPS) dropwindsonde data released from NOAA2s Gulfstream-IV jet aircraft, for three TC cases. In SAL environments, temperature soundings from both instruments are usually consistent. Additionally, AIRS is able to capture the very dry air in the middle levels, but it generally underestimates the moisture in the boundary layer and often misses the sharp vertical moisture gradient at the SAL base (~850 hPa). In the moist tropical boundary layer, AIRS also exhibits a dry bias. Cloud cover also prevents AIRS from accurately sampling the low-level moisture. Next, total precipitable water is derived from AIRS soundings and averaged over daily, monthly and seasonal timescales. The significant monthly and interannual variability of the moisture distribution is found to be consistent with expectations. A peak in the probability density function of mixing ratio corresponding to dry air is observed in the lower-mid troposphere in early summer, consistent with the increased frequency of SAL outbreaks during this period. Finally, the relationship between dry air derived from AIRS and TC intensity is explored. As the amount of dry air increases, particularly in the southeast and northeast quadrants of the TC, the TC becomes more likely to weaken. In the presence of high wind shear or low sea surface temperature, the likelihood of weakening increases further. While these results highlight some shortcomings of the AIRS data, their importance and uniqueness are emphasized via new applications of AIRS soundings over data sparse regions.
Author : Xian Liu
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (828 download)
Download or read book A Geospatial Analysis on Empirical Distribution with Applications to Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Level 3 Data written by Xian Liu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), a sensor aboard NASA's Aqua satellite, has been collecting temperatures, water vapor mass-mixing ratios, and cloud fractions at various atmosphere pressure levels since its launch in mid-2002. The AIRS level 3 Quantization (L3Q) product summarizes atmospheric data in each 5X5 latitude-longitude grid box during a time period by a set of representative vectors and their associated weights, which can be treated as an empirical distribution. A study on the empirical distribution of AIRS L3Q data might be useful in terms of summarizing the local climate pattern. This study provides insights on how statistical methods may extract more information from the AIRS L3Q data than from the simple sample average summary in each grid box.
Author : Volkan Huseyin Firat
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Download or read book Evaluation and Improvement of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Ice Cloud Retrievals written by Volkan Huseyin Firat and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clouds are still one of the largest uncertainties of the current climate models. While satellites provide suitable global datasets for comparing with cloud properties derived from models, satellite retrievals are inferences of cloud properties, rather than direct measurements, and therefore have errors. Therefore, it is important to evaluate satellite cloud products and gain advanced understanding of the products to accurately interpret the observations. This study investigates Aqua AIRS version 6 Level 2 cloud thermodynamic phase, ice cloud optical thickness, and ice cloud effective diameter, which released in April, 2013 and are available for all 13 years of the AIRS record. A filtering and gridding algorithm is used to create customized globally gridded datasets to evaluate the effects of satellite's viewing zenith angle, effective cloud fraction, cloud layers, cloud top temperature, time of the year, and geographic region. Viewing zenith angle does not strongly affect AIRS ice-phase, but higher viewing zenith angles lead to more water and fewer unknown pixels; the viewing zenith angle dependence is not strongly affected by the time of the year. Higher effective cloud fraction yields more ice- and water-phase, and less unknown-phase retrievals. Also, higher effective cloud fractions lead to greater values of ice cloud optical thickness. In addition, especially in high latitudes, ice-phase frequency is greater for two-layer clouds than single-layer clouds. On the other hand, water- and unknown-phase frequencies are greater for single layer clouds. Also, higher viewing zenith angles slightly decrease upper cloud top temperature. Approximately 90% of ice-phase cases have upper cloud top temperature values between 210 K and 235 K, ~80% of water-phase cases are found at 243-273 K upper cloud top temperature interval, and ~80% of the unknown cases have upper cloud top temperature values between 230 and 264 K. For ice cloud optical thickness and ice cloud effective diameter, no strong effects of satellite viewing zenith angle or cloud layering are observed. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155521
Author : Nicole J. Brubaker
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Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (587 download)
Download or read book A Cloud Mask for the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) written by Nicole J. Brubaker and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily B. McCarthy
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Download or read book Quantification of Volcanogenic Water Vapor Using the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) written by Emily B. McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Moustafa T. Chahine
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Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)
Download or read book AIRS/AMSU/HSB written by Moustafa T. Chahine and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth H. Vinson
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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Validation of Methane Products from the Amospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) During the Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) Mission written by Kenneth H. Vinson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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ISBN 13 : 9781722050146
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit Study for Atmospheric Infrared Sounder written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A), and the Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS, formerly AMSU-B) together constitute the advanced sounding system facility for the Earth Observing System (EOS). A summary of the EOS phase B activities are presented. Rosenkranz, Philip W. and Staelin, David H. Unspecified Center NAS5-30791...
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Download or read book AIRS/AMSU/HSB, The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, with Its Companion Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit and Humidity Sounder for Brazil, NP-2001-5-248-GSFC. written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 2001* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brady Joel Ross
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ISBN 13 : 9780438070127
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Near Surface Temperature Validation of the Airs Instrument Based from Ground Station Data in Barrow, Alaska written by Brady Joel Ross and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) satellite has been taking measurements since 2002 across the entire Earth. The main variables the AIRS satellite in observing are water vapor and temperature profiles. Given the long orbiting time of the satellite, the data provided is of utmost importance in understanding the climatic changes on Earth. This science is necessary because it helps us understand Earth's climatic and cyclic events more thoroughly. These cyclic climatic events can be accentuated in a fragile environment, such as the Arctic. In the Arctic, it is difficult to observe certain characteristics of the climate due to extreme temperatures, harsh weather, consistent cloud coverage, and a limited number of ground stations. While many papers use these ground-based observations to verify satellite data, there have been few studies that validates the AIRS satellite to the ground observations. In this study, the near surface temperature obtained from AIRS satellite is evaluated against a ground-based station in Barrow, Alaska, which can lead to a better understanding of the Arctic climate in reacting to our warming climate worldwide. There is a statistically significant strong positive trend for the temperatures and their monthly anomalies. The results indicate that AIRS has a high level of accurate near surface temperatures by comparing to the Barrow Observatory as the ground truth data.
