1 / 32

Climate Data Records from Microwave Satellite Data: A New High-Quality Data Source for Reanalysis

This paper discusses the development of Advance Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) and Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) Climate Data Records (CDRs) for hydrological applications. It focuses on the geolocation correction of AMSU and MHS data and the potential use of these CDRs for climate variability and change analysis.

mbergan
Download Presentation

Climate Data Records from Microwave Satellite Data: A New High-Quality Data Source for Reanalysis

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Climate data records from microwave satellite data: a new high quality data source for reanalysis Isaac Moradi1, H. Meng2, R. Ferraro2, C. Devaraj1, W. Yang1 CICS/ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park NESDIS/STAR, NOAA, College Park

  2. Outlines • Overview of the CDR project • AMSU/MHS products • Geolocation correction (the focus of the talk) • Scan Asymmetry Correction

  3. The Development of AMSU FCDR’s and TCDR’s for Hydrological Applications Definition for CDR (Wiki): According to NRC [National Research Council 2004. Climate Data Records from Environmental Satellites. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press.I SBN-10: 0-309-09168-3, ISBN 978-0-309-09168-8] "a time series of measurements of sufficient length, consistency, and continuity to determine climate variability and change.“ Goals • Develop Advance Microwave Sounding Unit-A and -B (AMSU-A/-B), and Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) FCDR’s for AMSU-A window (23.8, 31.4, 50.3, 89.0 GHz) and all AMSU-B/MHS channels (89, 150/157; 183.3+1, 183.3+3, 183.3+7/190.3 GHz) • Develop TCDR’s for hydrological products: Rain Rate, TPW, CLW, IWP, Snow Cover, SWE

  4. Products • AMSU (MSPPS) hydrological products * In MIRS, all AMSU-A, -B/MHS channels are used in product retrievals

  5. Sample Products Rain Rate Total Precipitable Water Ice Water Path Snow Cover Snow Water Equivalent Cloud Liquid Water

  6. Data, Products, Users • Source Data • NOAA-15,16,17,18,19 L1B data • MetOp-A L1B data • Deliverables • FCDR’s from 2000 – 2010 for all satellites (perhaps to 1998 for NOAA-15) • TCDR’s; same time periods • Current/Expected Users • National: government (NASA, NOAA, NRL); science community • International: IPCC; GEWEX (GPCP); CEOS; GCOS; IPWG • Other – General climate community

  7. AMSU/MHS Bias Sources

  8. Geolocation Correction

  9. Sources of geolocation errors • Human errors • Satellite clock offset • Satellite attitude offset and sensor pointing errors • Satellite attitudes are known as Pitch, Roll and Yaw (in mathematics: Euler • Angles) and are included in the geolocation algorithm by a rotation matrix • 4. Poor spacecraft ephemeris data • The implemented correction • method will take care of all • sources of errors. • The method is just applicable • to the microwave window channels

  10. Difference between NOAA-L1b and new geolocation The Advanced Earth Location Data System (AELDS) failed to calculate GHA Wrong MHS Step Angle

  11. NOAA Level 1b geolocation problems

  12. Error in MHS Step Angle MHS Step Angle is 10/9 but was taken as 1.1 until 05-217. The first orbit with correct step angle is SS.MHSX.NN.D05217.S1529.E1714.B0108889.GC

  13. Clock offset for NOAA POES satellites In the original NOAA-L1b data, the clock offset is not taken into account for geolocating NOAA-17 data

  14. Satellite attitudes Roll YAW Pitch Source: Wikipedia

  15. Quantifying the geolocation error • No geolocation error => ΔTB, ascending – descending, is very small (diurnal variation, environmental conditions, limb effect). • Geolocation error => ΔTb is very large along the coast lines because the land TB is much higher than ocean TB • negative alongtrack offset => northern coastlines will have acoldedge, and southerncoastlines will have a warmedge. • negative crosstrack offset =>westerncoastlines will have a coldedge and the easterncoastlines will have awarmedge

  16. Sample difference map Index = number of pixels along the coastlines where ΔTb > threshold

  17. How to tune pitch, roll, and yaw? Pitch = 0, Roll = 0, Yaw = 0 Tune Roll Tune Yaw Tune Pitch Calculate lat/long using SGDP and TLE Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Correction Required ? Calculate #pixels where ΔTb > threshold Yes Step < 4 Yes No No store lat/lon and LZA

  18. Sensitivity analysis

  19. Results

  20. Before and After Correction

  21. Before and After Correction

  22. Scan Asymmetry

  23. Scan bias characterization method Clear sky AMSU-B/MHS FOV determined by PATMOS-X Over tropical/subtropical oceans ERA-Interim T, q, O3 profiles ERA-Interim SST, U & V AMSU-B/MHS LZA, Scan angle AMSU-B/MHS 1b raw count Ta CRTM Tb Tb Compare collocated Tb’s with same atmospheric condition for each beam position

  24. LowPW:0-2.5, HighPW:4-6, mpvPW:2.5-4 LowWind:0-3, HighWind:7-1, mpvWind: 3-7

  25. CLW and Land Emissivity at 31.4 GHz: Before vs. After Correction

  26. Questions? Isaac Moradi imoradi@umd.edu Reference: Moradi, I, Meng, H., Ferraro, R, Bilanow, S., 2012. Correcting geolocation errors for microwave instruments aboard NOAA satellites. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing (under review)

More Related