China 2011

2011 IMAPP Training Workshop: Satellite Direct Broadcast for Real-Time Environmental Applications

Location: Eastern China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China

Date: 1-5 June 2011

Workshop Agenda

Day Zero (Question & Answer Session ): Evening (7-9 pm), 31 May 2011

Day One (MODIS): 1 June 2011 Liam Gumley

Introduction to MODIS sensor and Level 1B data

Lecture Session: MODIS sensor and Level 1B data characteristics

  • Level 1B (1KM; HKM; QKM)
  • Bowtie

Lab Session: Exploring MODIS L1B data in Hydra

  • Learning Hydra
  • Exploring MODIS L1B using Hydra using ECNU MODIS DB data

Day Two (MODIS Products): 2 June 2011 Kathleen Strabala

Lecture Session: MODIS Level 2 algorithms and products

  • MODIS Atmosphere Products
  • MODIS Land Products
  • MODIS Ocean Products

Lab Session

  • Exploring MODIS products using Hydra

Day Three (MODIS Applications): 3 June 2011 Kathleen Strabala

Lecture Session: Applications of MODIS products to local decision making

Weather Observation and Forecasting

  • Public Safety
    • Fog detection
    • Snow/ice detection
    • Fire detection
    • Severe weather
  • Aviation
    • Cloud height, cloud composition, cloud temperature
    • Turbulence
    • Ash detection
  • Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) DBCRAS applications
    • Direct Broadcast CIMSS Regional Assimilation System (DBCRAS) NWP
    • Freely distributed, globally configurable 72 hour forecasts of meteorological fields centered on user supplied lat/lon
    • Improved depiction of cloud and moisture using MODIS products in assimilation
    • Unique forecast satellite imagery
  • Air Quality
    • Aerosol detection
    • IDEA-I - Infusing satellite Data into Environmental Applications-International
  • Others
    • Use of sun glint patterns
    • Land Surface Temperatures case study of infestation

Lab Session

  • IDEA-I case study
  • Exploring DBCRAS using McIDAS-V

Day Four (AIRS & RTTOV): 4 June 2011 Allen Huang

Lecture Session:

AIRS sensor, algorithms, products, and applications and RTTOV

  • AIRS measurement principal
  • AIRS sounding retrieval theory & algorithm
  • AIRS product & application examples

RTTOV

  • What is RTTOV?
  • Running RTTOV
  • Interpreting RTTOV outputs

Lab Session:AIRS Measurement Information Content

Day Five (Class Exercises & Q/A): 5 June 2011

  • Creating gridded averages of IMAPP MODIS AOT and TPW products (Liam)

In the morning, the students will work through the process of creating a gridded monthly average of MODIS Aerosol Optical Thickness from the ECNU DBPS (in groups of three). The morning session will be guided by the instructor in a tutorial format. In the afternoon, they will repeat the exercise on their own using the MODIS TPW product, and they will present their results to the group.

Number of Participants: no more than 30

Lab Facility: Enough computers for one for each of three participants (i.e. for 30 participants 10 computers plus two to three backups are optimal)

Reading Assignments:

1. Paul Menzel - Application with Meteorological Satellites

2. COMET MODIS training module

3. COMET AIRS training module

Lecturers:

Allen Huang, Liam Gumley, Kathy Strabala and Willem Jacobus Marais