Current/Future Weather Satellite Programs Template

Institute name: AIRS Project, Jet Prop Lab, Caltech

Web Site: http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov

TOPIC	Information, Web sites, Contact Persons …
Satellite name:Aqua § operational, research…	http://aqua.nasa.gov/
Launch date: 5/4/2002	http://aqua.nasa.gov/
Instrument(s): § specifications, accuracy … § applications (i.e., NWP, climate..) § status/health	http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/atmodyn/airs/index.html http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/technology/technology_index.html http://aqua.nasa.gov/instruments.html http://airs-inquiry.jpl.nasa.gov/feedback/feedback_form.cfm
Products § level-0, § level-1 § level-2 …	http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/atmodyn/airs/index.html http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/data/data.html http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/science/science_index.html http://airs-inquiry.jpl.nasa.gov/feedback/feedback_form.cfm
Product Dissemination: § global, direct broadcast § retransmission service on which area (e.g. EARS) § real-time constraints … § access: ftp, direct acquisition, dedicated bandwidths, EARS …	http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/atmodyn/airs/index.html http://directreadout.gsfc.nasa.gov/download_technology/db_software.cfm http://aqua.ssec.wisc.edu/
Processing Packages: § available packages (for I/O, pre-processing, products …) § documentation and formats	http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/atmodyn/airs/index.html http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/researchers/researchers.html http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/IMAPP/AIRS/
Archive: § time period § formats § available processing packages § time delay	http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/atmodyn/airs/index.html http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/datapool/AIRS/ http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataset/AIRS/ http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/data/data.html
Available Validation Datasets (including collocated radiosonde, NWP, other satellites, prelaunch …)	http://airs-inquiry.jpl.nasa.gov/feedback/feedback_form.cfm
Other	http://airs-inquiry.jpl.nasa.gov/feedback/feedback_form.cfm