TY - JOUR
T1 - Validation of atmospheric profile retrievals from the SNPP NOAA-unique combined atmospheric processing system. Part 1
T2 - Temperature and moisture
AU - Nalli, Nicholas R.
AU - Gambacorta, Antonia
AU - Liu, Quanhua
AU - Barnet, Christopher D.
AU - Tan, Changyi
AU - Iturbide-Sanchez, Flavio
AU - Reale, Tony
AU - Sun, Bomin
AU - Wilson, Michael
AU - Borg, Lori
AU - Morris, Vernon R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 2, 2017; revised June 26, 2017; accepted August 17, 2017. Date of publication September 20, 2017; date of current version December 27, 2017. This work was supported in part by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-STAR) Office, in part by the NOAA/STAR Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division, in part by the NOAA Educational Partnership Program under Grant NA17AE1625 and Grant NA17AE1623, and in part by NOAA/National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service/STAR. (Corresponding author: Nicholas R. Nalli.) N. R. Nalli, C. Tan, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, B. Sun, and M. Wilson are with IMSG, Inc., NOAA/National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service/STAR, College Park, MD 20852 USA (e-mail: nick.nalli@noaa.gov).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - This paper provides an overview of the validation of the operational atmospheric vertical temperature profile (AVTP) and atmospheric vertical moisture profile (AVMP) environmental data record (EDR) products retrieved from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) and the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), two passive sounding systems onboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite. The CrIS/ATMS suite serves as the U.S. low earth orbit (LEO) satellite sounding system and will span the 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 capable of retrieving atmospheric profile EDR products with optimal vertical resolution under nonprecipitating (clear to partly cloudy) conditions. The SNPP NUCAPS AVTP and AVMP EDR products are validated using extensive global in situ baseline data sets, namely, radiosonde observations launched from ground-based networks and ocean-based intensive field campaigns, along with numerical weather prediction model output. Based upon statistical analyses using these data sets, the SNPP AVTP and AVMP EDRs are determined to meet the JPSS Level 1 global performance requirements.
AB - This paper provides an overview of the validation of the operational atmospheric vertical temperature profile (AVTP) and atmospheric vertical moisture profile (AVMP) environmental data record (EDR) products retrieved from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) and the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), two passive sounding systems onboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (SNPP) satellite. The CrIS/ATMS suite serves as the U.S. low earth orbit (LEO) satellite sounding system and will span the 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 capable of retrieving atmospheric profile EDR products with optimal vertical resolution under nonprecipitating (clear to partly cloudy) conditions. The SNPP NUCAPS AVTP and AVMP EDR products are validated using extensive global in situ baseline data sets, namely, radiosonde observations launched from ground-based networks and ocean-based intensive field campaigns, along with numerical weather prediction model output. Based upon statistical analyses using these data sets, the SNPP AVTP and AVMP EDRs are determined to meet the JPSS Level 1 global performance requirements.
KW - Atmospheric profiles
KW - Calibration/validation (cal/val)
KW - Environmental satellite
KW - Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)
KW - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS)
KW - Retrieval
KW - Soundings
KW - Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (SNPP)
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U2 - 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2744558
DO - 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2744558
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030089917
SN - 0196-2892
VL - 56
SP - 180
EP - 190
JO - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
JF - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IS - 1
ER -