CATS Near Real Time Data Products: Applications for Assimilation Into the NASA GEOS-5 AGCM

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: CATS Near Real Time Data Products: Applications for Assimilation Into the NASA GEOS-5 AGCM
المؤلفون: Hlavka, D. L, Nowottnick, E. P, Yorks, J. E, Da Silva, A, McGill, M. J, Palm, S. P, Selmer, P. A, Pauly, R. M, Ozog, S
بيانات النشر: United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
مصطلحات موضوعية: Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
الوصف: From February 2015 through October 2017, the NASA Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) backscatter lidar operated on the International Space Station (ISS) as a technology demonstration for future Earth Science Missions, providing vertical measurements of cloud and aerosols properties. Owing to its location on the ISS, a cornerstone technology demonstration of CATS was the capability to acquire, process, and disseminate near-real time (NRT) data within 6 hours of observation time. CATS NRT data has several applications, including providing notification of hazardous events for air traffic control and air quality advisories, field campaign flight planning, as well as for constraining cloud and aerosol distributions in via data assimilation in aerosol transport models. Â Recent developments in aerosol data assimilation techniques have permitted the assimilation of aerosol optical thickness (AOT), a 2-dimensional column integrated quantity that is reflective of the simulated aerosol loading in aerosol transport models. While this capability has greatly improved simulated AOT forecasts, the vertical position, a key control on aerosol transport, is often not impacted when 2-D AOT is assimilated. Here, we present preliminary efforts to assimilate CATS aerosol observations into the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System version 5 (GEOS-5) atmospheric general circulation model and assimilation system using a 1-D Variational (1-D VAR) ensemble approach, demonstrating the utility of CATS for future Earth Science Missions.
نوع الوثيقة: Report
اللغة: English
URL الوصول: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20170011699
ملاحظات: NNG17HP01C

NNX17AE79A

NNG11HP16A
رقم الأكسشن: edsnas.20170011699
قاعدة البيانات: NASA Technical Reports