SEMINAR: AOML Seminar - February 17, 2011 - Dr. Ralph Ferraro - “Future Microwave Sensors to Support Tropical Cyclone Monitoring and Prediction”

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AOML Seminar

Date:             Thursday, February 17, 2011

Time:             2:00 p.m. Refreshments at 1:45 p.m.                    

Location:     AOML First Floor  Conference Room

Speaker:      Dr. Ralph Ferraro

        NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and

          Research (STAR), College Park, MD

Title:             “Future Microwave Sensors to Support   Tropical  Cyclone Monitoring and Prediction ”

 

Abstract: There will be a series of new satellite missions and microwave sensors on low earth orbiting satellites that will be placed into operation over the next five years. 
 These include (in planned order of launch) Japan’s GCOM-W AMSR (a continuity mission for AMSR-E); France/India’s Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR and MADRAS (a new research mission
 that will be flown in a low inclination orbit); NOAA and NASA’s NPP ATMS (a continuity mission for the current POES satellites); NASA and JAXA’s GPM GMI and DPR (a continuity and 
expansion of the highly successful TRMM); NOAA’s JPSS ATMS (a continuity mission for the current POES satellites); DOD’s DWSS MIS (a continuity mission for the current DMSP).  

Perhaps the most significant aspect of these missions is their contribution to the GPM “constellation”, which will provide global precipitation and radiance information every three 
hours or less.  This data will be inter-calibrated at the radiance level as part of GPM, thus, offering the opportunity to generate unbiased orbital products relative to each other.  The 
data will be available through a common ground system, thus making the data acquisition and processing more efficient. 
The “constellation” data will be useful in a number of applications, including tropical cyclone monitoring and prediction.  Radiance information will be useful for NWP model 
assimilation and tropical cyclone center fixing.  The derived products such as rainfall intensity, total perceptible water, ocean surface wind speed and sea-surface temperature will 
all contribute to the efforts at NOAA, including TPC and AOML. 
Additionally, instruments will temperature sounding capability like the ATMS will provide continuity for the AMSU sensor and will be useful for investigating the warm core structure of 
the storms and their associated rapid intensification cycles.
This talk will highlight the various attributes of these missions and their contributions to GPM.  In addition, NOAA’s current activities related to GPM, including recommendations from the
 August 2010 “NOAA GPM Users Workshop” and developing transition plans between NASA and NOAA will also be discussed.

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