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NOAA Products Validation System + (NPROVS+)
Tony Reale Bomin Sun, Michael Pettey, Nick Nalli
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Outline • GRUAN data • Dedicated Data • Routine Processing • EDRs and SDRs • Analytic Interface (EDGE) • Collocation Strategy • “K” uncertainty Analysis • Results / Outreach
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… sites provide reference radiosonde (RS92) plus ancillary ground (lidar, MWR, FTIR …) observations, adherence to best measurement practices GRUAN Manual and Measurement Guideline documents) including specification of “Measurement Uncertainty” with plans for up to 40 sites (5+ years)
GCOS “Reference” Upper AIR Network (GRUAN)
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GRUAN 6th International Coordination Meeting (ICM-6) March 10-14, GreenBelt, Hilton … special Tuesday session on satellite synergies
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Dedicated S-NPP RS92 RAOB funded by JPSS CrIMSS Project
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EDR Validation
… ongoing re-structure of ARM scheduling to provide “sustained” year round coverage
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STAR (Tilley) and LC (Sommer) coordinate on access of RS92 from ARM and their access for NPROVS+ via LC STAR and CIMSS (Tobin, Borg) oversee the scheduling and launches of dedicated launches at ARM sites, recently modified to provide year round coverage; JPSS funded provided through sounding product cal/val program Similarly, JPSS supports AEROSE campaign (and PMRF) launches (N Nalli)
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6 378 dedicated , 1900 GRUAN
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7 GUAN Monitoring
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NPROVS Collocation Dataset
Dedicated +
Reference +
COSMIC
NUC NPP IDPS
NPP
AIRS v6
IASI (NOAA)
MiRS NPP
DualReg ECMWF
GTS (CFSR+GFS)
NUCAPS stamp
g r a n u l e s
Daily; 14-day delay (NetCDF / HDF5)
Daily; NRT (conventional)
IDPS stamp
AIRS stamp
IASI stamp
SDRs: CrIS, ATMS, VIIRS, AIRS, MODIS, IASI, AVHRR…
137
8 NPROVS+
EDR Validation
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Ded / Ref Collocations
Append Stamps (granule, SDR …)
Re-Retrieve
NUCAPS, IDPS, IASI, AIRS, DualR … MiRS
User ARCHIVE
14-day delay
Ded / Ref
Collocation, ReRet (1, i)
PDISP, NARCS, ODSpp
PDISP, NARCS, ODS, other… p
VALAR Algorithm Development
NPROVS+ … unified validation and development
Project
Operation
web
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“single closest”
EDR Validation
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ICVS: Long-Term Sensor Calibration/Validation Monitoring (SDR) from Space (http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/icvs/index.php)
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• Sounding is performed on 50 km field of regard (FOR).
• FOR is currently defined by the size of the microwave sounder footprint.
• IASI/AMSU has 4 IR FOV’s per FOR
• AIRS/AMSU & CrIS/ATMS have 9 IR FOV’s per FOR.
• ATMS is spatially over-sampled and can emulate an AMSU FOV.
… additional stamp info (500km area centered at RAOB) supports development
Overview of EDR Data Products (3/4)
11 Barnet, Prov
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PDISP
ODS
… routine monitoring to deep dive
NARCS
Seasonal
Daily Weekly
Orbital
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NPROVS Analytical Interface …
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Collocation Strategy
• Reference/dedicated RAOB (RS92) is anchor • Raw, Digicora, GRUAN, GTS (4 flavors) • Append Ancillary • Compress to 1km layers (also retain original hi-density) • Single closest satellite EDR • NWP (GFS 6-hr, CFSR and ECMWF Anal) … • For hyperspectral (S-NPP, MeTop, Aqua) append all EDRs within 500km of RAOB • Append SDR (traceable to ICVS) within 500km
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15 2050 collocations (350 Dedicated, 1700 GRUAN) … 5mos
EDR Validation NPROVS+
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Co-location / co-incidence: Determine the variability (σ) of a variable (m) in time and space from
measurement or model Two observations on different platforms are consistent if
Consistency in a Finite Atmospheric Region
22
21
221 uukmm ++<− σ
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… at this preliminary stage: K = ABS(X – GRUAN) / Uncertainty (u1)
where “X” either SAT or NWP “need uncertainty estimates for EDR”
GRUAN Reference Measurement Principles
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17 GRUAN only … Include Uncertainty Estimates … “K” Profiles
RMS “K”
EDR Validation Results
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http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/launch/GPS_RO_cartoon.jpg
One Day of COSMIC Profiles
COSMIC / GRAS (Stratosphere Reference from Space …)
Illustration of the closest (black square), circular (blue circle), and ray path (red dots) methods for a single GPS profile (green) for the circle centered at the GPS RO level of 100 hPa
EDR Validation Results
courtesy Knuteson / Feltz CIMSS
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• Integrate STAR (Weng, Reale) and CIMSS (Knuteson / Feltz) approaches
• EDR and SDR
• GPS RO provides Reference for EDR, SDR and RTM
COSMIC
AIRS/AMSU CrIS/ATMS
GPSRO Anchored Collocation
IASI/ATMS (GRAS)
EDR Validation Results
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Vaisala RS92 difference from COSMIC T
57,200 profiles
All sample
Raob-minus-COSMIC
day night
Sun angle
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Raob-minus-COSMIC for Vaisala RS92
Summer
Seasonal variation in bias is bigger at nighttime: Summer relatively warmer than winter NPROVS
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Winter-minus-Summer
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Profile evaluation
Comparison of IASI and NWP forecast with RAOB.
Courtesy: Tony Reale et al., NOAA, presented at GRUAN ICM5
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Summary
• NPROVS+ on 14-day delay
• EDR and SDR collocated to each Reference
• Open to expansion
• Collocation sampling through
• Results
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GRUAN RAOB
Raw Digi GTS
Ancillary SASBE
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Characterization of atmospheric column well suited to assess satellite product
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Ded / Ref Collocations
Append Stamps (granule, SDR …)
Re-Retrieve
NUCAPS, IDPS, IASI, AIRS, DualR … MiRS
User ARCHIVE
14-day delay
Ded / Ref
Collocation, ReRet (1, i)
PDISP, NARCS, ODSpp
PDISP, NARCS, ODS, other… p
VALAR Algorithm Development
NPROVS+ … unified validation and development
Project
Operation
web
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“single closest”
EDR Validation
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Brief History NOAA Program for Soundings
HIRS/MSU ( SSM/T1) HIRS/AMSU-A TOVS ( SSM/T2) (AMSU-B only)
MiRS AIRS /AMSU IASI/ATMS CrIS/ATMS
1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 ORA STAR
Restore Project Independent NOAA PROduct OVerSight
S P O P
Project Oriented Validation
J1
N P R O V S
ATOVS
s o u n d i n g a s s i m i l a t i o n
r a d i a n c e a s s i m i l a t i o n
s o u n d i n g
C L I M A T E
N O A A O P E R A T I O N S O V E R S I G H T
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NPROVS Collocation Dataset
Dedicated +
Reference +
COSMIC
NUC NPP IDPS
NPP
AIRS v6
IASI (NOAA)
MiRS NPP
DualReg ECMWF
GTS (CFSR+GFS)
NUCAPS stamp
g r a n u l e s
Daily; 14-day delay (NetCDF / HDF5)
Daily; NRT
IDPS stamp
AIRS stamp
IASI stamp
SDRs: CrIS, ATMS, VIIRS, AIRS, MODIS, IASI, AVHRR…
137
33 … exclusive anchor to Ref / Ded RAOB and GPSRO….
EDR Validation Results
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Lin EURASIA
100km 500km
June 2-9 2012
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Vaisala RS92 difference from COSMIC T
57,200 profiles
All sample
Raob-minus-COSMIC
day night
Sun angle
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Seasonal Variation in Raob-minus-COSMIC for Vaisala RS92
Summer
Seasonal variation in bias is bigger at nighttime: Summer relatively warmer than winter? GRUAN interest … 36
Winter-minus-Summer
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Lin, 0Z, nite
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+/- 3 hr / 150km
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NPROVS Collocations 12/16 to 12/26 2013 … 12,335 46
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1) Determine the variability (σ) of a variable (m) in time and space from measurement or model
2) Two observations on different platforms are consistent if
Consistency in a Finite Atmospheric Region
22
21
221 uukmm ++<− σ
47
… at this preliminary stage: K = ABS (X – GRUAN) / Uncertainty (u1)
where “X” either SAT or NWP “need uncertainty estimates for EDR”
GRUAN Reference Measurement Principles
EDR Validation Results
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Temp +/- 3hrs 150km vs GTS Raob
H20 % +/- 3hr 150km vs GTS Raob
UTLS
GRUAN Sonde and COSMIC-minus- GTS Sonde
1DVAR mimics NWP NWP independent of Raob
IASI Retrieval
Mainly Vicinity of Lindenberg, Germany
1DVAR mimics NWP NWP independent of Raob
UTLS
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NOAA Products Validation System (NPROVS) 49
Conventional RAOB