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The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the NASA Aqua Spacecraft: A General Remote Sensing Tool for Understanding Atmospheric Structure, Dynamics and CompositionThe Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the EOS Aqua Spacecraft was launched on May 4, 2002. Early in the mission, the AIRS instrument demonstrated its value to the weather forecasting community with better than 6 hours of improvement on the 5 day forecast. Now with over eight years of consistent and stable data from AIRS, scientists are able to examine processes governing weather and climate and look at seasonal and interannual trends from the AIRSdata with high statistical confidence. Naturally, long-term climate trends require a longer data set, but indications are that the Aqua spacecraft and the AIRS instrument should last beyond 2018. This paper briefly describes the AIRS data products and presents some of the most significant findings involving the use of AIRS data in the areas of weather forecast improvement, climate processes and model validation, cloud and polar processes, and atmospheric composition (chemistry and dust).
Document ID
20150008544
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Pagano, Thomas S.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Chahine, Moustafa T.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Fetzer, Eric J.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
May 20, 2015
Publication Date
September 20, 2010
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Geophysics
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE Remote Sensing Conference
Location: Toulouse
Country: France
Start Date: September 20, 2010
End Date: September 23, 2010
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Temperature
Sounding
Atmosphere
Water Vapor
Weather
Climate

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