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New Climate Products Available from DISCOVER
Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and K. Hilburn and F. J. Wentz
DISCOVER is a NASA funded project that strives to provide highly accurate, long-term climate data records and near-real-time ocean products suitable for the most demanding Earth research applications via easy-to-use display and data access tools. The project is a follow-on to the SSM/I Pathfinder project which pioneered the simultaneous retrieval of surface wind speed, columnar water vapor, cloud liquid water content, and rain rate from SSM/I observations. The ocean products available through DISCOVER are derived from multi-sensor observations combined into daily products and a consistent multi-decadal climate time series. The DISCOVER team has a strong track record in identifying and removing unexpected sources of systematic error in radiometric measurements, including misspecification of SSM/I pointing geometry, the slightly emissive TMI antenna, and problems with the hot calibration source on AMSR-E. This in-depth experience with intercalibration is absolutely essential for achieving our objective of merging multi-sensor observations into consistent data sets. Extreme care in satellite inter-calibration and commonality of geophysical algorithms is applied to all sensors. In addition to the sea surface temperature product already available, we introduce in this poster the latest DISCOVER products, a 4x-daily microwave water vapor global ocean product and a daily cumulative rain product. Potential use of these products is included. DISCOVER is a collaboration of Remote Sensing Systems and the Global Hydrology & Climate Center which is composed of NASA and university scientists residing at the National Space Science Technology Center on the campus of the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Poster Session 2, Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Studies
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 9:45 AM-9:45 AM, Exhibit Hall A2
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