SLIDE 1 Update on: AIRS Carbon Monoxide
Associate Professor of Physics University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- C. Barnet and W. Wolf (NOAA/NESDIS),
- X. J. Warner, M. L. McCourt, L. L. Strow, and Allen Chu (UMBC)
- P. Novelli (NOAA/CMDL), Glen Sachse (NASA/LaRC)
SLIDE 2 AIRS Daily Global CO
- Based on data in GRL paper now in revision
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- GRL manuscript: in revisions
- JPL first public movies based on GRL
- CO verticality?
- CO first guess?
- CO correlations with aerosols?
- Impacts of clouds and smoke?
- CO only a support product in v4.0!
- NASA INTEX-A field experiment
- Retrieval Algorithm Optimization v5.0
- Validation vs. In situ and MOPITT
- Other Case Studies
AIRS CO Status
SLIDE 4 AIRS CO Retrieval Trapezoids
500 300
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AIRS CO Retrieval Map
SLIDE 6 AIRS CO Verticality
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- Next-day CO maps and 48-hour trajectory
forecasts for flight-planning
- Large-scale view for Lagrangian experiment
- Automated processing w/online posting
Intercontinental chemistry and Transport EXperiment
AIRS CO for INTEX-A INTEX-A for AIRS CO
- In situ CO profiles for validation
- Intensive modeling collaborations for
analysis and interpretation
- Process studies in global context
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INTEX-A: AIRS Daily Products
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July 2004 AIRS Daily Global CO
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First INTEX AIRS Validation
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First INTEX AIRS Validation
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fires Asian pollution USA pollution
INTEX-A: July 16-23 CO Event
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SST depression: real or artifact?
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CO Cross-sections: Vertical information?
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MODIS Terra 7/18 1728UT
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CO Cross-sections: Vertical information?
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MODIS Terra AOD 7/18 1728UT
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- U. Wisconsin Lidar (E. Eloranta)
SLIDE 31 AIRS CO at 500mb (ppbv) MODIS Aqua Total AOD MODIS Aqua Total AOD July 18, 2004
SLIDE 32 AIRS CO at 500mb (ppbv) MODIS Aqua Total AOD July 18, 2004
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AIRS MOPITT AIRS MOPITT
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MOPITT - AIRS at 500 mb
Mean Bias = -12.3, RMS = 10.7, 79% of 7603 matchups within ± 20 ppbv
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AFGL first guess MOPITT apriori
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Effect of first guess CO profile
Difference in retrieved CO at 500 mb (ppbv)
SLIDE 40 Mean bias = -18 ppbv Median bias = -16 ppbv
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SLIDE 45 AIRS CO Retrieval Trapezoids
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AIRS CO Retrieval Optimization
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AIRS CO Retrieval Optimization: Profile Locations CMDL (~90) & MOZAIC (~5000)
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- GRL manuscript: in revisions
- JPL first public movies based on GRL
- CO verticality?
- CO first guess?
- CO correlations with aerosols?
- Impacts of clouds and smoke?
- CO only a support product in v4.0!
- NASA INTEX-A field experiment
- Retrieval Algorithm Optimization v5.0
- Validation vs. In situ and MOPITT
- Other Case Studies
AIRS CO Status