Second NOAA/NESDIS

Cooperative Research Program Annual Science Symposium

SATELLITE CALIBRATION & VALIDATION

July 13-14, 2005

Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wednesday Afternoon 13 July 2005

Introduction Chair: Jeff Key, NOAA

1300 Introductory Remarks/Logistics/Agenda Jeff Key, NOAA

1310 Welcome Steve Ackerman, SSEC

1320 The Cooperative Institutes and NESDIS Al Powell, NOAA

1335 The Big Picture of Cal/Val Paul Menzel, NOAA

1400 Overview of Cooperative Institute Cal/Val Activities

Cal/Val Activities at CIOSS Ted Strub, CIOSS

Cal/Val Activities at CIMSS Steve Ackerman, CIMSS

Cal/Val Activities at CIRA Don Hillger, NOAA/CIRA

Cal/Val Activities at CICS Andy Harris, CICS

Cal/Val Activities at CREST Reza Khanbilvardi, CREST

1500 Break

Radiance Calibration and Validation Chair: Tim Schmit, NOAA

1515 AVHRR Visible Band Calibration/Intercalibration Andy Heidinger, CIMSS

1530 MODIS Radiance Calibration Chris Moeller, CIMSS

1545 Using AIRS to Assess MODIS Radiances  Dave Tobin, CIMSS

1600 AIRS/GEO Infrared Intercalibration Mat Gunshor, CIMSS

1615 Using Sun Glint and Antarctic Ice Sheets to Calibrate

MODIS and AVHRR Observations of Reflected Sunlight   Bill Tahnk, CIOSS

1630 Poster Introductions Poster authors

1645 Poster Reception Poster authors

1800 Banquet – Pyle Center Ameritech Lounge

Posters (Wednesday afternoon)

1. Use of Tide Gauges in Altimeter Calibration and Validation:
Estimating Altimeter Drift to Estimate Long-Term Sea Level
Rise Ted Strub, CIOSS

2. Improved SST retrieval in tropical regions using GOES-R ABI Leona Charles, CREST

3. Validation of Satellite-Based NESDIS Rainfall Products        Walid Harrouch, CREST/CUNY

4. Vegetation Effect on Soil Moisture Retrieval from Active
Microwave Data Tarendra Lakhankar, CUNY

5. Capabilities and limitations of neural networks in snow cover
mapping from passive microwave data         Juan Arevalo, CREST/CUNY

6. Validation of Satellite-derived Polar Clouds Xuanji Wang, CIMSS

7. Accuracy of Satellite-derived Temperature Inversions Yinghui Liu, CIMSS

8. Validation of Coastwatch ocean color products   Sathyadev Ramachandran, NOAA

9. Cloud Detection: Optical Depth Thresholds and FOV
Considerations        Steve Ackerman, CIMSS

10. Calibration of Radar Remote Sensing as Applied to Soil
Moisture and Vegetation Health Determination        Mairim Ramos, CREST/UPRM

11. Calibration and Validation Fundamentals                   Vazjier Rosario, CREST/UPRM

12. Validation of Hydro-Estimator Algorithm for Puerto Rico
Region       Beatrice Cruz, CREST/UPRM

13. Validation of Cloud Top Height Retrieval by MODIS and
MISR Instruments        Ana Picon, CREST/UPRM

14. Seawifs Validation in Coastal Waters of Western Puerto Rico Patrick Reyes, CREST/UPRM

15. The effect of Calibration Uncertainties on Cloud Height
Retrievals from HIRS        Min Min Oo, CREST

16. A Comparison of High Spectral Resolution Infrared Cloud

Top Pressure Algorithms Using S-HIS Measurements          Bob Holz, CIMSS

17. Windsat Vector Wind Accuracy from Buoy and QuikSCAT
Comparisons         Mike Freilich, CIOSS

18. Visibility Analysis of Class I Areas Using Multiple Satellite
Products and In Situ Ground Based Measurements  Nikisa Jordan, CREST/UMBC

19. GASP Optical Depth Animations and Optical Depth
Comparison with an Elastic Lidar         Ray Rogers, CREST/UMBC

20. Windsat Observations of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in
the Eastern Tropical Pacific         Dudley Chelton, CIOSS

Thursday 14 July 2005

0830 Muffins, tea, coffee

0845 Intro/Logistics Jeff Key, NOAA

Ocean and Land Applications Chair: Ted Strub, CIOSS

0900 Using Satellite-Derived PBL Properties to Infer Land

Surface Fluxes Joe Santanello, CICS

0915 SST and Physical Radiance Bias Correction  Andy Harris, CICS

0930 Ocean Color Products: The Challenge of Going From

Stocks to Rates Sam Laney, CIOSS

0945 Coastal Carbon Fluxes from Satellite Ocean Color,

SST and Winds Peter Strutton, CIOSS

1000 Ocean Vector Wind Workshops and the Role of Cal/Val
in Preparing for Future Satellite Wind Sensors Dudley Chelton, CIOSS

1015 Vector Winds and Severe Storms in the Operational

Environment Paul Chang, NOAA/CIOSS

1030 Break

1045 Retrieval of Ocean Properties Using Multispectral

Methods Sam Ahmed, CREST

1100 Discussion

Atmosphere Applications Chair: Steve Ackerman, CIMSS

1115 Validation of CIRA Tropical Cyclone Algorithms Julie DeMuth, CIRA

1130 Use of GPS for Validation of Microwave Moisture

Retrievals Over Land Matt Nielsen, CIRA

1145 Satellite-derived Atmospheric Product Validation

Using In Situ and Remotely Sensed Data Wayne Feltz, CIMSS

1200 Lunch – Pyle Center Lee Lounge

1330 3-Dimensional Validation of Satellite AOD Products and
the Numerical Aerosol Forecast Models that Use Them  Ray Hoff, CREST/UMBC

1345 Aerosol Retrieval and Ground Albedo in Urban Areas

Using V/NIR and MIR Hyperion Channels  Barry Gross, CREST/CCNY

1400 Improving Correlation of AOD and Surface PM2.5 Using

Lidar Data, Implications for CALIPSO  Fred Moshary, CREST/CUNY

1415 Cal/val Activities at UPRM Hamed Parsiani, CREST/UPRM

Climate Applications Chair: Don Hillger, NOAA/CIRA

1445 Using Fluctuations in Hyperspectral Satellite Observations

to Estimate Climate Sensitivity Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, CICS

1500 Break

1515 On the Validation and Intercomparison of Global Water

Vapor Climate Data Records from Satellites John Forsythe, CIRA

1530 Inter-satellite Calibration of HIRS OLR Time Series Hai-Tien Lee, CICS

1545 Cloud Climatology Validation Mike Pavolonis, CIMSS

1600 Discussion

1615 Closing: Did we meet out goals?

1630 End of workshop