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NASA Headquarters Update

NASA Headquarters Update. Ramesh Kakar Aqua Program Scientist June 28, 2011. Program Update. Aqua satellite is in its 10 th year of operation AMSR-E working admirably but showing signs of aging Adequate fuel on-board for potential Aqua operation beyond 2018

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NASA Headquarters Update

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  1. NASA Headquarters Update RameshKakar Aqua Program Scientist June 28, 2011

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  7. Program Update • Aqua satellite is in its 10th year of operation • AMSR-E working admirably but showing signs of aging • Adequate fuel on-board for potential Aqua operation beyond 2018 Being an extended mission, the Aqua satellite recently went through a third “senior review” Claire Parkinson did an excellent job of defending the Aqua satellite with strong support from Roy Spencer for AMSR-E Senior review results will be announced in late July (but we don’t expect any surprises for AMSR-E) 7

  8. NASA Operating Missions

  9. AQUARIUS Launched 6/11 LDCM Dec 2012 SMAP Nov 2014 ESD Missions in Development & Formulation NPP Sep 2011 ICESat-2 Late 2015 GPM Jul 2013Nov 2014

  10. GRIP: (Hurricane) Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes Field Experiment • Global Hawk (UAV) (240 hours) • Radar (Heymsfield/GSFC), Microwave Radiometers (Lambrigtsen/JPL), Dropsondes (NOAA), Electric Field (Blakeslee/MSFC) • Geosynchronous Orbit Simulation • DC-8 four engine jet (120 hours) • Dual frequency precipitation radar (Durden/JPL) • Dropsondes (Halverson/UMBC), Variety of microphysics probes (Heymsfield/NCAR) • Lidars for 3-D Winds (Kavaya/LaRC) and for high vertical resolution measurements of aerosols and water vapor (Ismail/LaRC) • In-situ measurements of temperature, moisture and aerosols (Bui/ARC) • WB-57 (60 hours, partially funded by NOAA) • Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer • Hurricane Imaging Radiometer • Six week deployment during the 2010 HS RED= IIP, GREEN= IIP+AITT Blue line: DC-8 range for 12-h flight, 6 h on station Red lines: GH range for 30-h flight with 10, 15 and 20 h on station Light blue X: Genesis locations for 1940-2006 R.Kakar/NASA HQ

  11. GRIP GH Payload Driftsondes High Altitude Lightweight Dropsonde (Vertical profiles of temp, humidity, pressure & winds) HIWRAP High Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Profiler (Horizontal wind vectors and ocean surface winds) • HAMSR • High Altitude MMIC Sounding Radiometer • (Temp, H2Ov, Cloud liquid & ice distribution) LIP Lightning Instrument Package (Lightning and Electrical Storm observation)

  12. GRIP DC-8 Payload MMS Meteorological Measurement System (Insitu Press, Temp, 3D Winds and Turbulence) DAWN Doppler Aerosol Wind Lidar (Vertical Profiles of Vectored Horizontal Winds) Dropsondes (Vertical Profiles of Temp, Press, Humidity and Winds) CAPS, CVI, PIP (Cloud Particle Size distributions, Precip Rate, Rain & Ice water content) APR-2 Airborne Precipitation Radar Dual Frequency (Vertical Structure Rain Reflectivity and Cross Winds) LASE Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (H2Ov, Aerosol profiles and Cloud distributions)

  13. NASA Aircraft Hours and GRIP Coordination Coordination of a combined 5 NASA and NOAA aircraft in Hurricane Karl on 16 September 2010 at ~1955 UTC R.Kakar/NASA HQ

  14. GRIP Planning and the Future • NASA sponsored field campaigns have helped us develop a better understanding of many hurricane properties including inner core dynamics, rapid intensification and genesis • The availability of long endurance UAV’s like the Global Hawk prompted us to design an experiment for a sustained look at hurricanes with satellite quality instruments • HS3 (PI: Scott Braun) is the future of NASA hurricane research field experiments and has been called the GRIP experiment on steroids

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