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AIRS Educa+on and Public Outreach

NASA Sounder Science Team Mee1ng Nov 3‐5, 2010 Sharon Ray, AIRS Outreach Lead

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New AIRS Web Site Launched 9.13.10

AIRS Education and Public Outreach 10/31/10

AIRS Public Web Site ‐ What’s New

Ads on the Home page that point to our carbon dioxide data, daily near‐real‐Eme maps, and our “Ask AIRS” query form Image and video highlights on the Home page Expanding menus in the leL navigaEon column to find pages faster Three new secEons on Weather, Climate, and ComposiEon Updated News Archive Updated People secEon New Feedback web page (see the link in the web page footer) Latest PublicaEons

11,500 page views ~ 3700 visits/month 45% search engines

the rest from direct traffic & referring sites

~ 2600 blogs

Nov 2009, ~ 1100 blogs

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AIRS Anima+on of Russian Wildfires Featured on NYT’s Dot Earth Blog

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

8/15/10

Green Tech - CNET News Aug 12, 2010 ... Data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua spacecraft allows a comparisons of air quality over the Russian Federation ... news.cnet.com/greentech/ - 4 minutes ago NASA Video Shows Global Reach of Pollution from Fires - Science ... Aug 12, 2010 ... The data are from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft. AIRS is most sensitive to carbon monoxide at ... www.redorbit.com/news/science/1903949/nasa_video.../index.html - 51 minutes ago Research.gov - NASA Instrument Tracks Pollution from Russian Fires The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft is tracking the concentration and transport of carbon monoxide from the Russian ... www.research.gov/rgov/anonymous.portal?_... - 1 hour ago The Hindu : News / International : Wildfires in Russia, Canada ... NASA's Aqua satellite, equipped with an atmospheric infrared sounder (AIRS), has noted a change in the concentrations of carbon monoxide at an altitude of ... www.thehindu.com/news/international/article566562.ece - 1 hour ago m-Wildfires-Covers-Earth- 151874.shtml - 5 hours ago

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• The New York Times Dot Earth is a blog where

Andrew Revkin reports on natural resources, the environment, climate change and sustainability.

• VisualizaEon of AIRS CO from Russian wildfires, July

18 to August 10, 2010 makes the blog.

• Europe Today on the BBC World Service interviews Ed

Olsen about the AIRS CO animaEon

• Widespread, internaEonal coverage

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AIRS Anima+on of Russian Wildfires Featured on NYT’s Dot Earth Blog

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

8/15/10

Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology

AIRS Anima+on of Russian Wildfires Featured on NYT’s Dot Earth Blog

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

8/15/10

Some comments on the anima+on:

Lou Grinzo Rochester, NY August 12th, 2010 8:20 am Wow, that's quite a visual. It's almost as if, you know, we're all living on the same, finite planet. Go figure. mmswedish August 12th, 2010 10:23 am Yup, Lou #6, as if we live on the same planet. I am increasingly aware that most of 'my' people do not know how the earth works. Why are we not taught ecology beginning in kindergarten?

Why do we not learn how our planet and the ecosystems in which we are embedded actually work? I have a very strong feeling that our culture would be dealing with the ecological crises we are facing now quite differently if they understood this – innately – from childhood.

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AIRS in New NCEP Reanalysis

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

• Notable is nearly all the data sources are from
• peraEonal satellite systems, with one of the

excepEons being the inclusion of data from AIRS

• Feature wri_en by Sharon Ray and Duane Waliser for

AIRS web site, and featured on Climate web site

9/27/10

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NASA Hurricane Coverage Con+nues ‐ AIRS Con+nually Supplies Images

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

• Hurricane Igor story Etled

“Stunning NASA Infrared Imagery

• f Hurricane Igor Reveals a 170

Degree Temperature Difference!” wri_en by Rob Gutro of the NASA Hurricane Page

• Story was picked up by more

than 130 outlets, including MSNBC, USA Today and NPR. Rob was also interviewed by Fox News NYC about NASA coverage

• f Igor.
• Time series created from MODIS

and AIRS images receives widespread news coverage, including tweet by CNN’s Rick Sanchez.

9/15/10, 10/26/10

AIRS IMAGES ARE 4 FOR 4 ON NASA HURRICANE PAGE On Oct 26, all four storms featured on the site (CHABA,RICHARD,GIRI, MEGI) use AIRS images as the headline picture.

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AIRS in New NASA Water Cycle Fact Sheet

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

• New NASA Water Cycle

Fact Sheet wri_en by Steve Graham, Claire Parkinson, and Mous Chahine features AIRS water vapor imagery

• AIRS water vapor

image included in a feature story Etled “A Li_le Water Goes a Long Way” in NASA’s Earth Observatory

10/12/10

AND SPREADING THE WORD... Astronaut and former Terra Project ScienEst, Peter Sellers, used AIRS animaEons of carbon dioxide in a talk at the NaEonal Air and Space Museum on September 15th.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology October Earth Observer ‐ AIRS CO Imagery

• f Russian Fires & Chahine Award

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

10/31/10

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SPIE Feature Story: Advanced IR Measurements Improve Hurricane Forecasts

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

• SPIE technical arEcle features research by

Jun Li, Hui Liu and Timothy J. Schmit

• Atmospheric‐water‐vapor informaEon is a

key parameter needed in the regional numerical‐weather‐predicEon (NWP) model for accurate hurricane forecasEng.

• Today's hyperspectral IR sounders such as

AIRS, IASI provide unprecedented global, verEcal atmospheric temperature and moisture distribuEons with high accuracy.

• Through an advanced retrieval technique,

criEcal informaEon can be extracted from AIRS radiance measurements by assimilaEon of the spaEal and verEcal water‐vapor distribuEon around a hurricane into a regional NWP model, thereby improving path and intensity forecasts.

10/28/10

http://spie.org/x42479.xml?highlight=x2420&ArticleID=x42479

Typhoon Chaba, 10/28/10

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Upcoming Stories

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• Bjorn Lambrigtsen ‐ AIRS Data used to help forecast effort

in GRIP Campaign

• Julie Wallace ‐ ApplicaEons of AIRS Data

9/27/10

• Hengchun Ye
• Nick Nalli

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AIRS in Educa+on ‐ 2 Partnerships

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New Hi‐Def Time Series Data Sets Large Magic Planet and Science on a Sphere

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

Hi all, Our Dynamic Planet contents was being captured and aired by the Weather Channel at the recent annual AMS event, BIG thanks to Steve Graham's dedicaEon to keeping content with latest data, and many thanks to Kevin Ward (NEO project), Marit JentoL‐Nilsen (EOS), Mark Malanoski (EOS), Vicky Weeks (Goddard TV), Sharon Ray (EOS/AIRS) data support to make this content rich inspiring showcase. Here is the link to the video was aired on Friday, Jan. 22, 7:55 am on Weather Channel. Winnie

10/25/10

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New Hi‐Def Time Series Data Sets Large Magic Planet and Science on a Sphere

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

10/25/10

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New Hi‐Def Time Series Data Sets Large Magic Planet and Science on a Sphere

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

• Charles Thompson created data sets of Water Vapor,

Ozone, Carbon Monoxide, Surface Temperature, Carbon Dioxide, Methane

• Time Series runs from Sept 1, 2009 ‐ Sept 30, 2010
• To debut at A‐Train Symposium in October
• More data sets to come for AGU in December

10/25/10

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• zone

water vapor surface air temperature carbon dioxide

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New Visualiza+on ‐ Polar CO2

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

• Data supplied by Hai Nguyen, Ed Olsen, Amy Braverman

10/25/10

• VisualizaEon by Lori Perkins, GSFC SVS

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AIRS on ECO TV

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

10/31/10

• Eco Company, a national TV show aimed at

teens, explores "all aspects of being green and understanding how we impact our world."

• Hosted by teens
• Eco reports on the latest technologies in

energy, recycling, conservation and organics

• Interviewed AIRS scientist Dr. Ed Olsen

about how the AIRS instrument in space is contributing to the study of Earth's climate, as well as questions about climate change

• 117 local television staEons around the country,
• pening in internaEonal television markets

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Public Symposium on Climate Change

AIRS Education and Public Outreach

10/31/10

• Held 10.16.10 at JPL, sponsored by JPL’s Green Club, helped by

AIRS Outreach and JPL Media

• 8 speakers, including AIRS Deputy Project ScienEst Eric Fetzer,
• Carbon cycle, clouds, ozone,ice, OCO, how satellites are used,

greenhouse effect, climate change and the media

• Audience quesEons varied from "Are climate models geong too

complicated to understand?" to "How do volcanoes affect climate?" and "Why are the big countries not on board with climate regulaEon?" ,"When it comes to discussions of climate change, why is populaEon control not talked about as a possible soluEon?"

• ~ 160 a[endees
• 4,149 UStream a[endees (200 whole Eme, the rest drop in for 4‐5 mins)
• House Science & Technology Commi[ee requested presenta+ons

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10/31/10