ESSIC Goes to the AGU Fall Meeting
January 13, 2020
Over 20 ESSIC/CISESS scientists and students attended this year’s AGU conference and many more contributed to talks and poster presentations. The talks included:
Tag: Satellite Calibration and Validation
ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Attend Joint Satellite Conference
October 29, 2019
Last month, NOAA/AMS/EUMETSAT held their annual Joint Satellite Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. ESSIC/CISESS had a large contingent of scientists at the meeting presenting posters and giving talks, listed below. ESSIC scientists’ talks included:
- Scott Rudlosky (SCSB/STAR/NESDIS/NOAA) on Geostationary Lightning Mapper Products
- Hu Yang on Lunar Calibration for Space Borne Microwave Radiometers
- Jingjing Peng on Evaluation of JPSS VIIRS Albedo Estimates against MODIS, APP-x, and
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Zhang Records Storm Chasing Experience in Dramatic Video
October 22, 2019
Daile Zhang, Postdoctoral Associate at ESSIC/CISESS, recently posted a video on YouTube documenting a storm chasing trip she went on last May alongside Atmospheric Sciences graduate students and postdoctoral associates from the University of Arizona. On the trip, her group traveled through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri looking for a tornado. Unfortunately, they did not see a tornado. Instead, they saw some meso-scale storms that eventually turned into a tornado. Daile Zhang received …
Zhou and Yang Published on New ATMS Geometric Calibration Based on Lunar Images
October 1, 2019
ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Jun Zhou and Hu Yang recently published an article in the journal Atmospheric Measurement Techniques titled “A Study of a Two-Dimensional Scanned Lunar Image for Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) Geometric Calibration”. The article describes a new technique they developed to validate the on-orbit beam pointing accuracy of the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) on NOAA-20 by using a 2D scanned lunar image captured during a spacecraft pitch-over …
Satellite Retrieved Precipitate Rates Lag Ground Precipitation Measurements, Find ESSIC/CISESS Scientists
July 25, 2019
Earlier this month, Geophysical Research Letters published an article co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Yalei You and Faculty Specialist Jun Dong as well as Visiting Research Scientist Huan Meng and Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Scott Rudlosky. Titled “Time‐Lag Correlation Between Passive Microwave Measurements and Surface Precipitation and Its Impact on Precipitation Retrieval Evaluation”, the study showed a time lag between satellite radiometer-retrieved …
ESSIC/CICS Scientists Travel to Italy for Satellite Observation Meeting
March 15, 2019
Last week was the annual meeting of the Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS), an international collaborative effort to monitor, improve, and harmonize observations from the Global Observing System weather and environmental satellites. The meeting, held in Frascati, Italy, included a “Mini-Conference” on calibration activities outside of GSICS as well as reports, briefs, and discussions on the GSICS Research Working Group, GSICS Data management Working Group, and GSICS …
ESSIC / CICS-MD Scientists Published on the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager
November 6, 2018
ESSIC / CICS-MD Visiting Associate Research Scientists Fangfang Yu and Zhipeng Wang were recently published on a new CICS Task entitled “Calibration Support for Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)”. The Advanced Baseline Imager is an instrument onboard the GOES-R satellites that images Earth’s weather, oceans and environment. The GOES-R ABI has presented many new challenges in radiometric calibration, or calibrating image data to radiance, reflectance, or brightness temperatures. These are …
Yang, Zhou published in IEEE Journal
September 14, 2018
ESSIC / CICS-MD Associate Research Scientist Hu Yang is the lead author of a new publication in press at IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. ESSIC / CICS-MD post-doctoral associate Jun Zhou (STAR/SMCD) is a co-author. This article describes a new methodology to simulate lunar emission at microwave frequencies as a means of monitoring the calibration and stability of the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) onboard the Suomi NPP satellite. The new model offers …
ESSIC / CICS-MD Scientists Present at STAR JPSS Annual Science Conference
September 11, 2018
On Monday, August 27, CICS-MD hosted the Poster Session and Reception for this year’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Annual Science Conference. A total of 67 posters were on display. Congratulations to the six ESSIC / CICS-MD scientists who presented: – Cezar Kongoli, et al., “Calibration and Validation of the S-NPP Snowfall Detection Algorithm;” – Yuling Liu et al., “Preliminary Quality Assessment of NOAA 20 LST EDR …
Xu, Wang, and Chen study published in IEEE journal
August 24, 2018
ESSIC / CICS-MD scientists Hui Xu, Likun Wang, and Yong Chen (STAR/SMCD) have an article in press at the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing titled “Cross-Track Infrared Sounder Spectral Gap Filling Toward Improving Intercalibration Uncertainties”. The paper focuses on the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), a hyper-spectral infrared sounder used to check calibration accuracy of narrow or broadband instruments. Despite the sounder’s …
