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High Accuracy Observations of Spectrally Resolved IR Radiance from Earth Orbit: Setting the Time Scale in the Energy-Climate Debate

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMA1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Anderson, James; Dykema, John; Leroy, Stephen
• The development optical-systems capable of determining the absolute, spectrally-resolved, infrared-radiance emitted from the Earth to Space to an accuracy of ...

The Earth-Reflected Solar Spectral Radiance for Climate Benchmarking

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMA2
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Pilewskie, Peter; Kopp, G; Roberts, Y; Kindel, B; Shanbhag, N
• We present current results of a study that will aid in defining the requirements of an Earth-viewing spectrometer over the solar spectral domain for climate benchmarking, a driving...

Short-Wave Instrument Development for CLARREO

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMA3
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Kopp, Greg; Pilewskie, Peter; Drake, Ginger; Espejo, Joey; Harber, Dave; Heuerman, Karl; Roberts, Yolanda
• Benchmarking Earth’s climate via remote sensing from space, as planned by CLARREO, requires radiometry with high absolute accuracy and SI-traceability. We present an on-orbit...

CLARREO Science Applications: Infrared Spectra with On-Orbit SI Traceability for Climate

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMA4
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Dykema, John A; Leroy, Stephen; Huang, Yi; Anderson, James G
• This paper focuses on the climate science applications of the infrared sensor of the CLARREO mission. These applications are predicated on its on-orbit traceability, ...

How Have Kilochannel Infrared Instruments Improved Numerical Weather Forecasts?

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMB2
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Joiner, Joanna
• This talk will cover the progress to date on assimilating data from hyper-spectral infrared sounders such as AIRS and IASI into global numerical weather prediction systems to improve...

Advances in Determining Cloud Composition from Infrared Radiances: Application to Advanced Geostationary Sensors

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMB3
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Pavolonis, Michael
• This work is aimed at developing advanced techniques for inferring information on cloud microphysics from infrared measurements, with a focus on cloud composition. The techniques are...

Some New Progresses in the Optical Properties of Nonspherical Ice Crystals and Dust Aerosols

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMB4
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Yang, Ping; Bi, Lei; Meng, Zhaokai; Kattawar, George W; Baum, Bryan A; Huang, Hung-Lung (Allen)
• Steady progress has been made in the simulation of the single-scattering properties of nonspherical ice particles and dust aerosols. An updated database is being built of the optical...

Improvement of Ice Cloud Optical Models at Visible through Far-Infrared Wavelengths

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMB5
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Baum, Bryan A; Yang, Ping; Heymsfield, Andrew J
• Improvements are discussed regarding the development of ice cloud bulk scattering models based on a comprehensive set of microphysical in situ measurements and a set of modeled ice...

Infrared Spectral Radiance Validation and Plans for the Cross-track Infrared Sounder

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMC1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Tobin, David C
• This presentation will summarize the expected performance of CrIS based on analysis of pre-launch test data and describe plans for post-launch validation of Earth observations, with...

IASI L1 NRT Product Quality Monitoring at EUMETSAT: Results from 2 Years of Operations

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMC2
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• Fiedler, Lars; Ackermann, Jörg; Livschitz, Yakov; Montagner, Francois
• Results from the first 2 years of NWP based IASI L1 radiance monitoring and the comparison of IASI and HIRS/3 infrared channels using IASI based HIRS pseudo channels are presented.

On-Orbit Characterization of Blackbody Emissivity and Spectrometer Instrument Line-Shape Using Quantum Cascade Laser Based Reflectometry

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMC3
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Gero, P Jonathan; Dykema, John A; Anderson, James G
• We present a method to characterize the emissivity of a spaceborne blackbody and the instrument line-shape of a spectrometer, on orbit, using a quantum cascade laser based...

Sensitivity Analysis of MTG-IRS L2 Prototype Processor

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMC4
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Calbet, Xavier; Pavelin, Ed; English, Stephen; Bornemann, Jorge; Tjemkes, Stephen; Stuhlmann, Rolf
• A sensitivity analysis of the MTG-IRS L2 prototype processor has been performed to document the performance and to understand the critical components. The outcome and application to...

NASA ESTO Instrument Incybator Program (IIP) Tropospheric Infrared Mapping Spectrometers (TIMS) Demonstration of Multi-Layer CO Retrieval from Atmospheric Data Acquired Simultaneously in the Solar Reflective Region near 2330 nm and the Thermal Emissive Region near 4680 nm

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HMC5
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Kumer, John (Jack) B; Roche, Aidan E; Rairden, Rick L; Desouza-Machado, Sergio; Blatherwick, Ron; Hawat, Toufic; Chatfield, Robert
• We present multi-layer CO retrieval from atmospheric data acquired simultaneously in the solar reflective region near 2330 nm and the thermal emissive region 4680 nm by the...

Ways to Explore Information Content of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HTuA1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Liu, Xu; Larar, A M; Zhou, D K; Smith, W L; Young, D F; Wielicki, B A
• A principal component (PC) analysis will be used to analyze the information content of hyperspectral remote sensing data based on a priori information, data error, and Jacobians.

Retrieval of Surface Emissivity from Hyperspectral and Multispectral IR Measurements

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HTuA2
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Li, Jun; Li, Jinlong; Jin, Xin; Zhou, Lihang; Goldberg, Mitchell D
• An algorithm has been developed for retrieving global map of emissivity spectra from AIRS. In order to retrieve surface emissivity from multispectral band instrument such as SEVIRI,...

Observations and Simulations of Small-Scale Variability of Temperature, Water Vapor, and Cloud Liquid and Ice Water Content

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HTuA3
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Kahn, Brian H; Teixeira, João; Hristlova-Veleva, Svetla; Lee, Seungwon; Fetzer, Eric J
• Small-scale variability of temperature, water vapor, and cloud water content observations from the AIRS and CloudSat instruments, and simulated fields from WRF for selected regimes,...

Hyperspectral Retrieval of Surface Emissivities

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HTuA4
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Thelen, Jean-Claude; Havemann, S; Taylor, J P
• We apply a fast radiative transfer code, based on empirical orthogonal functions, in conjunction with a 1D-VAR retrieval scheme to airborne hyperspectral radiance measurements in order...

Evaluation of the Impact of Radiative Transfer Models on SEVIRI/ABI Profile Retrieval

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HTuA5
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Jin, Xin; Li, Jun; Schmit, Timothy J; Goldberg, Mitchell D
• The impacts of CRTM and RTTOV on atmospheric profile retrieval are evaluated using SEVIRI observations and radiosonde dataset. These two models have noticeable differences at some...

Comparison of Dust Detection by Using Reflected Solar Bands and Thermal Bands

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HTuA6
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Kim, Jhoon; Lee, Jaehwa; Kim, Mijin; Park, Sang Seo; Song, Chul Han
• Dust detection from solar and thermal bands is compared to investigate the performance of each algorithm. Three different algorithms show reasonable consistency to detect dust layer....

Genesis and Evolution of the Use of Polarization in Remote Sensing of Atmospheres and Oceans

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• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISensE) 2009 paper: HTuB1
• OSA Technical Digest (CD)
• Kattawar, George
• We will give an overview of the importance of polarization sensing in the atmosphere and ocean. The Stokes vector/Mueller matrix formalism is used to show how the method gives distinct...