Boundary Layer Structures Over the Northwest Atlantic Derived From Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar and Dropsonde Measurements During the ACTIVATE Campaign
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Y. Xu↗
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D. Painemal
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SatCORPS Satellite-Derived Cloud and Radiative Properties: ARM Site Coverage Updates
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Regionally Variable Dust Lidar Ratios Using CALIOP Measurements and Model Simulations
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Creating Near Real-time Hourly VIIRS Radiance Mosaic over Polar Regions from SatCORPS Global Cloud Composite (GCC)
While polar orbiting satellites are essential in providing the needed observations over polar regions for data assimilation, weather diagnoses/forecasting, and flight guidance and situation awareness in airborne field campaigns, there is limited temporal coverage. Often, polar mosaics are created by overlaying multiple satellite imagers on top of each other which can lead to transition lines and discontinuities in the data products. To help ease some of these shortcomings, we utilize the NASA Langley Satellite ClOud and Radiation Property retrieval System (SatCORPS) Mosaic algorithm for optimally fusing and merging selected imager radiances from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument onboard the Suomi National polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP), Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), and JPSS-2 satellites, and the MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments onboard AQUA and TERRA satellites. Since multiple satellites overpasses and instruments are used in creating hourly 3-km composites over the polar regions, selection of the best satellite data for each 3-km composite pixel is based on aggregated ranking of satellite resolution, time, viewing zenith angle, and distance from terminator. This ranking system provides a smoother transition and improves data discontinuity in the merged output resulting in a more seamless polar region dataset. We will discuss the use of this near real-time dataset to support polar airborne field campaigns and SatCORPS satellite-derived Global Cloud Composite (GCC) generation.
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