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EAQUATE : An International Experiment for Hyper-Spectral Atmospheric Sounding Validation

Author
Pappalardo, G.
Published
February 2008.
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1 electronic document
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Grieco, G., Romano, F., Larar, A., Masiello, G., DiGirolamo, P., Pisani, G., Rizzi, R., Amodeo, A., Cuomo, V., Esposito, F., Mango, S., Zhou, D., Pavese, G., Antonelli, P., Smith, W., Newman, S., Mona, L., Summa, D., Restieri, R., Serio, C., Taylor, J. P., and Maestri, T.
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Summary
The international experiment called EAQUATE (European AQUA Thermodynamic Experiment) was held in September 2004 in Italy and the United Kingdom to demonstrate certain ground-based and airborne systems useful for validating hyperspectral satellite sounding observations. A range of flights over land and marine surfaces were conducted to coincide with overpasses of the AIRS instrument on the EOS Aqua platform. Direct radiance evaluation of AIRS using NAST-I and SHIS has shown excellent agreement. Comparisons of level 2 retrievals of temperature and water vapor from AIRS and NAST-I validated against high quality lidar and drop sonde data show that the 1K/1km and 10%/1km requirements for temperature and water vapor (respectively) are generally being met. The EAQUATE campaign has proven the need for synergistic measurements from a range of observing systems for satellite cal/val and has paved the way for future cal/val activities in support of IASI on the European Metop platform and CrIS on the US NPP/NPOESS platform.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 20080024204.
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