Aqua Briefing at NASA Headquarters, August 23, 2005 Agenda

1. Aqua Briefing at NASA Headquarters, August 23, 2005Agenda 1:30 p.m. Introduction ……………….…. Claire Parkinson 1:40 p.m. Mission Operations ………………….... Bill Guit 2:05 p.m. MODIS …………………….. Vince Salomonson 2:25 p.m. CERES …………………………. Bruce Wielicki 2:45 p.m. AIRS/AMSU/HSB ………. Steve Friedman and Bjorn Lambrigtsen 3:05 p.m. AMSR-E ………………………….. Roy Spencer 3:25 p.m. Concluding Comments from HQ and/or Others

2. Overview • Instrument Issues • MODIS Spectral Radiometric Calibration Assembly (SRCA) 10 W lamp #3 failure • CERES FM-4 shortwave channel difficulties • AMSU noisy bus current spikes • Successes • Widespread use of Aqua data among scientists • Widespread use of Aqua data by forecasters and other near-real-time users • Exciting new results (e.g., global maps of CO, CO2, upper tropospheric H2O)

3. Aqua Special Sessions at Major Meetings • Session on Earth Radiation and Climate at the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, 3-7 June, 2002 in Ogden Utah, with 10 CERES papers and a CERES global data image on the cover of the proceedings. • “Early Results from NASA's EOS Aqua Spacecraft Mission" (five sessions), fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, December 9-10, 2003. • “First AMSR Science Results”, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2003, Toulouse, France, July 22, 2003, 7 presentations. • “AMSR” (oral) and “Aqua/AMSR” (interactive/poster) sessions, IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, September 22 and 24, 2004, 6 oral presentations and 4 posters. • AIRS Special Session, AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, December 2004. • AIRS Special Session, American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 9-13, 2005. • “Monitoring Earth with AMSR”, IGARSS 2005, Seoul, Korea, July 28, 2005, 9 papers. • “EOS Terra and Aqua”, IGARSS 2005, Seoul, Korea, July 29, 2005, 10 papers. • (Upcoming) AIRS Special Session, AMS annual meeting, Atlanta, January 29 – February 2, 2006.

4. Aqua Special Issues or Sections of Journals • Special issue on the EOS Aqua Mission, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, volume 21, number 2, February 2003, pp. 172-501, 29 papers. • Special issue on the AMSR/AMSR-E Project, Rivista italiana di Telerilevamento, n.30/31, 2004, 10 papers. • “Improving Our Understanding of Climate Change: Observing Our Water Planet using AMSR and AMSR-E”, published by Earth Observation Research and Application Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). • Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites Experiment (CLAMS) special issue, focused on validation of Terra and Aqua data products for the ocean and atmosphere, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2005, volume 62, No. 4. • Special issue on AIRS validation, Journal of Geophysical Research, scheduled for early 2006, 15 papers. • Special section on AMSR-E Arctic sea ice validation, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, scheduled for 2006, 9 papers.

5. Aqua Science Team Publications • AMSR-E • 8 refereed, 17 total publications in 2003 • 3 refereed, 12 total publications in 2004 • 10 refereed, 13 total publications so far in 2005 • AIRS • 39 publications in 2004 • 17 publications so far in 2005 • CERES • 331 (TRMM, Terra, and Aqua) publications (and 2922 citations) by February 2005. • MODIS • 181 refereed, 316 total publications in 2004 • 179 refereed, 386 total publications so far in 2005 • 833 refereed, 1655 total publications overall by August 2005

6. Use of Aqua Data in Weather Forecasting • Use of AMSU radiances, cloud-free AIRS radiances, and MODIS atmospheric motion vectors by the United Kingdom Met Office (UKMO) in their global model. • Assimilation of AIRS data by NOAA/NCEP and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). • Use of AMSR-E water vapor and rain data by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) in their meso-scale weather forecast model. • Use of AMSR-E rainfall and brightness temperature data by the National Hurricane Center in their hurricane forecasts. • Use of AMSR-E sea surface temperatures by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC; U.S. Navy and Air Force center for tracking typhoons in the Pacific and Indian Oceans) for tropical cyclone forecasting. • Also, for forecast validation: • Use of CERES data by ECMWF, UKMO, and NCEP for validation of the forecast models, in hindcast mode. • Use of CERES data to verify the accuracy of the GEOS-3, -4, and -5 data assimilation models and to evaluate the performance of new "Super-parameterization" climate models. • Use of MODIS cloud products for climate and forecast model validation by ECMWF and for cloud retrieval data assimilation research efforts at GMAO.

7. Other Practical, Near-Real-Time Uses of Aqua Data • Use of MODIS fire data by the U.S. Forest Service to assist them in most effectively deploying forest fighters. • Use of MODIS dust data by the U.S. military in Iraq to monitor dust storms. • Use of AMSR-E sea surface temperature data by the Japan Fisheries Information Service Center to assist fishermen in locating active fisheries. • Use of AMSR-E data by the Dartmouth Flood Observatory in their detection and analysis of extreme flood events world-wide. • Availability of AMSR-E browse Ocean products within a few hours to two days of data collection, at http://www.ssmi.com/amsr/amsr_browse.html (Frank Wentz products). • Production of global precipitation maps from SSM/I, TMI, and AMSR-E by the near-real-time NOAA office at GSFC. • Production of a "Flash Flux" near real time version of the CERES data products by NASA Langley, with the purpose of providing improved input on surface radiative fluxes for ocean assimilation in short term climate prediction.

8. MODIS Imagery Captures a Dust Storm Overriding Baghdad Syria Iran Iraq Saudi Arabia

9. Aqua Briefing at NASA Headquarters, August 23, 2005Agenda 1:30 p.m. Introduction ……………….…. Claire Parkinson 1:40 p.m. Mission Operations ………………….... Bill Guit 2:05 p.m. MODIS …………………….. Vince Salomonson 2:25 p.m. CERES …………………………. Bruce Wielicki 2:45 p.m. AIRS/AMSU/HSB ………. Steve Friedman and Bjorn Lambrigtsen 3:05 p.m. AMSR-E ………………………….. Roy Spencer 3:25 p.m. Concluding Comments from HQ and/or Others