Question 3: Thierry Phulpin Experience with use of IASI on Metop A and plans

1. Question 3: Thierry PhulpinExperience with use of IASI on Metop A and plans Thierry Phulpin CNES project scientist for IASI and IASI-NG NOAA/NASA/ EUMETSAT Miami 29-31 March 2011

2. Preamble • This is a point of view through the work of the ISSWG and the lessons learnt from recent symposia among them the 2nd IASI international conference • ISSWG played a strong role to develop applications (role and activities recalled orally) • Recall of National french (CNES) support to scientific activities around IASI NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

3. Applications of IASI dataOperational meteorology (1) Global NWP, LAM, mesoscale models • Number of users, different methods but generally based on level1c products, • Only 1 pixel/4 (except mesoscale) every two FOR, only less than 200 channels • Still in development : more conditions (clouds) more areas (polar regions). More channels (Humidity : band 2). In a short term use of PCAs NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

4. Operational meteorology (2) • Very good results have been obtained : quantified to about 3 hours at 3 days • Illustrations with Klaus and Arome • However open questions: • Will more channels be treated in future (band 3)? • Will more pixels be used ? • Will the inhomogeneous pixels be used? • Remaining issues: • Humidity profile (even if recent progress) • Spectroscopy (improvements still needed to fully exploit IASI data) • Remark • Level 2 products are rarely used. NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

5. Climate • GSICS • Beginning archiving level 2 products • Some IASI products will be used in confrontation with Climate models (Ozone, clouds) • Some products used for monitoring : Profiles, aerosols, CO2, CH4, clouds, etc. (see C.C talk) • Only a few climate process studies make use of IASI data Quality is there (accuracy, stability,etc.) Just need to foster scientific plans  NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

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7. Atmospheric chemistry • More than 20 species (in fires) detected • Some well quantified : O3 (TC and profile), CO, CH4, CO2 • Some only detected but with avery high reliability : SO2, HNO3, NH3, Formic acid, methanol • Operational applications : MACC (CO), VAAC (SO2) NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

8. Russian fires 2010 CO total column measurements derived from the IASI/MetOp observations from July 22 to August 22, 2010. These data are averaged over 3 days on a 0.5°x0.5° grid and only daytime concentrations above 2.2 x 18 molecules/cm2 are shown. Please give credit for this animation to Maya George (LATMOS)

9. Species observed globally with IASI Clerbaux et al., ACP, 2009, and references therein

10. Species observed locally with IASI after a volcanic eruption (here, at Kasatochi, in August 2008) in plumes of biomass burning (here, for the 2009 Australian bushfires) Clarisse et al., submitted to GRL, 2011

11. Lessons learned for AC • All spectrum very useful • Other atmospheric data mandatory (cloud, temperature, humidity) • Large swath => Very good coverage. • Stability is very important.  • Improve NeDT and Spectral resolution would help to detect and quantify more species and also obtain profiles. NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

12. No convincing products : N2O Impact of potential restriction of distributing PCAs only? CO2 limited to UTLS Most of products good in upper troposphere but of coarser quality in lower troposphere or BL (e.g. O3, CO) hampering strong develpment of AQ applications Develop combined assimilation of AC and NWP encouraging results in MACC)( Issues NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

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14. Requirements for IASI-NG (1) • Based on PMET position papers, S5 requirements and MENINGE (french scientific community) • Improvement of atmospheric profiles (Temp, H2O). Especially over land, near surface • Extension to cloudy conditions • Combine AC and NWP? • Many species to be measured, more to be detected Note for Eumetsat The main users of the IRS mission will be the WMO real time users, i.e. NWP centres of National Meteorological Services and ECMWF. Operational nowcasting services of National Meteorological Services may also be users of the IRS mission. The IRS mission is also relevant to non real-time users, such as for climate monitoring and atmospheric chemistry. NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

15. Requirements for IASI-NG (2) • Clear advantage in reducing the Radiometric noise. • Advantage presumed of improved spectral resolution for AC. To be consolidated. Is there one for NWP? • Advantage of spatial resolution and sampling? 5.1.3 Priority of Requirements - MRD_IRS.005 1. Spectral and radiometric resolution shall have priority over spatial sampling distance as long as the spatial sample equivalent diameter is less than the specified threshold value. 2. Spectral resolution shall have priority over radiometric resolution for the atmospheric chemistry application as long as the threshold values are not exceeded. 3. Radiometric resolution shall have priority over spectral resolution for the NWP application. NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

16. STUDIES TO JUSTIFY REQUIREMENTS • TWO rounds : CNES and then scientific studies carried out by MENINGE • Main results : Resolution/2 and radiometric noise /2 > • Better acccuracy of T(z) in near surface layers • More information on CO and CH4 • Slight improvement on H2O (?) NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

17. NWP Temperature profile sounding • Profile retrieval using the 15 µm and 4 µm CO2 bands • Tropical atmosphere • Noise contribution from uncertainties on surface temperature and emissivity, humidity profile. • A priori covariance from ECMWF DOFS = 5.9 DOFS = 10.7 • With respect to a priori uncertainty, IRS2 contribution is about twice IRS1 contribution NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

18. NWP Spectral res. noise Temperature profile sounding : effect of spectral resolution • The relative gain (or error reduction) is defined as (a posteriori-a priori)/(a priori) • It is in the range 5 - 25%. IRS1 contribution • Spectral resolution improves the instrument contribution, beyond noise reduction by increasing the number of channels (n) IRS2 contribution NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

19. Atmospheric chemistry Atmospheric chemistry : CO profile (2140-2180 cm-1) IRS1 instrument is not sufficient to provide a vertical profile (less than 2 DOFS). IRS2, though not meeting the level 1 requirements, is close to the threshold level 2 performances (especially for the cold bench configuration). NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

20. Atmospheric chemistry Atmospheric chemistry : CH4 column (1280-1360 cm-1) • The CH4 column can be retrieved with a precision in agreement with the MRD threshold (resp. breakthrough) from IRS1 (resp. IRS2) observations. NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011

21. Thank you for your attention NOAA/NASA/EUM Workshop Miami, 29-31 March 2011