TY - JOUR
T1 - Validation of atmospheric profile retrievals from the SNPP NOAA-unique combined atmospheric processing system. Part 2
T2 - Ozone
AU - Nalli, Nicholas R.
AU - Gambacorta, Antonia
AU - Liu, Quanhua
AU - Tan, Changyi
AU - Iturbide-Sanchez, Flavio
AU - Barnet, Christopher D.
AU - Joseph, Everette
AU - Morris, Vernon R.
AU - Oyola, Mayra
AU - Smith, Jonathan W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - This paper continues an overview of the validation of operational profile retrievals from the Suomi National Polar- Orbiting Partnership (SNPP), with focus here given to the infrared (IR) ozone profile environmental data record (EDR) product. The SNPP IR ozone profile EDR is retrieved using the cross-track IR sounder (CrIS), a Fourier transform spectrometer that measures high-resolution IR earth radiance spectra containing atmospheric state information, namely, vertical profiles of temperature, moisture, and trace gas constituents. The SNPP CrIS serves as the U.S. low earth orbit (LEO) satellite IR sounding system and will be featured on future Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) LEO satellites. The operational sounding algorithm is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS), a legacy sounder science team algorithm that retrieves atmospheric profile EDR products, including ozone and carbon trace gases, with optimal vertical resolution under nonprecipitating (clear to partly cloudy) conditions. The NUCAPS ozone profile product is assessed in this paper using extensive global in situ truth data sets, namely, ozonesonde observations launched from ground-based networks and from ocean-based intensive field campaigns, along with numerical weather predic-tion model output. Based upon rigorous statistical analyses using these data sets, the NUCAPS ozone profile EDRs are determined to meet the JPSS Level 1 global performance requirements.
AB - This paper continues an overview of the validation of operational profile retrievals from the Suomi National Polar- Orbiting Partnership (SNPP), with focus here given to the infrared (IR) ozone profile environmental data record (EDR) product. The SNPP IR ozone profile EDR is retrieved using the cross-track IR sounder (CrIS), a Fourier transform spectrometer that measures high-resolution IR earth radiance spectra containing atmospheric state information, namely, vertical profiles of temperature, moisture, and trace gas constituents. The SNPP CrIS serves as the U.S. low earth orbit (LEO) satellite IR sounding system and will be featured on future Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) LEO satellites. The operational sounding algorithm is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS), a legacy sounder science team algorithm that retrieves atmospheric profile EDR products, including ozone and carbon trace gases, with optimal vertical resolution under nonprecipitating (clear to partly cloudy) conditions. The NUCAPS ozone profile product is assessed in this paper using extensive global in situ truth data sets, namely, ozonesonde observations launched from ground-based networks and from ocean-based intensive field campaigns, along with numerical weather predic-tion model output. Based upon rigorous statistical analyses using these data sets, the NUCAPS ozone profile EDRs are determined to meet the JPSS Level 1 global performance requirements.
KW - Algorithms
KW - Atmospheric measurements
KW - Geophysical measurements
KW - Infrared (IR) measurements
KW - Measurement errors
KW - Ozone
KW - Radiosondes
KW - Remote sensing
KW - Satellite applications
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U2 - 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2762600
DO - 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2762600
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034214262
SN - 0196-2892
VL - 56
SP - 598
EP - 607
JO - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
JF - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IS - 1
ER -