|
BEACON eSpace at Jet Propulsion Laboratory >
JPL Technical Report Server >
JPL TRS 1992+ >
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/2014/40748
|
| Title: | AIRS - the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
| Authors: | Lambrigsten, Bjorn H.
Fetzer, Eric
Fishbein, Evan
Lee, Sung-Yung
Paganao, Thomas |
| Keywords: | infrared
atmospheric sounding
Aqua |
| Issue Date: | 20-Sep-2004 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004. |
| Citation: | IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Anchorage, Alaska, September 20 - 24, 2004. |
| Abstract: | The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) was launched in 2002, along with two companion microwave sounders. This AIRS sounding suite is the most advanced atmospheric sounding system to date, with measurement accuracies far surpassing those of current weather satellites. From its sun synchronous polar orbit, the AIRS system provides more than 90% of the globe every 24 hours. Much of the post-launch period has been devoted to optimizing the "retrieval" system used to derive atmospheric and other parameters from the observations and to validate those parameters. The geophysical parameters have been produced since the beginning of 2003 - the first data were released to the public in mid-2003, and future improved versions will be released periodically. The ongoing calibration/validation effort has confirmed that the system is very accurate and stable. There are a number of applications for the AIRS products, ranging from numerical weather prediction - where positive impact on forecast accuracy has already been demonstrated, to atmospheric research - where the AIRS water vapor products near the surface and in the mid and upper troposphere as well as in the stratosphere promise to make it possible to characterize and model phenomena that are key for short-term atmospheric processes, from weather patterns to long-term processes, such as interannual variability and climate change. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/40748 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
|
Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|
