PPT-RAIN IMPACT MODEL (RIM) FOR AQUARIUS

Andrea SantosGarcia 1 Maria M Jacob 2 Linwood Jones 1 and William Asher 3 1 Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab University of Central Florida Orlando FL 2 Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales Argentina. R. Bindlish, T. Jackson, M. Cosh. November 2014. Overview. Soil moisture algorithm. Soil moisture product. Validation. Linkage between Soil Moisture and SSS. Aquarius Soil Moisture Algorithm. The baseline soil moisture algorithm uses the . Shannon Brown and Sidharth Misra. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. 7th . Aquarius SAC-D Science Meeting. 11-13, April 2012. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Project Overview. Developing methods to track Aquarius calibration over Antarctica and rainforest regions. of . Salinity. Kyla Drushka. 1. , . Sarah Gille. 2. , Janet Sprintall. 2. . kdrushka@apl.uw.edu. 1. Applied Physics Lab, Univ. of Washington . 2. Scripps Inst. of Oceanography. Aquarius Science Team Meeting. Rain Impact . on the Aquarius . Salinity Retrievals. T. Meissner. , F. Wentz, J. Scott, K. Hilburn. Remote Sensing Systems. meissner@remss.com. 2014 Aquarius / SAC-D Science Team Meeting. November 11- 14, 2014. Thomas . Meissner,. Frank . Wentz, . Joel Scott, Kyle Hilburn. Remote . Sensing Systems. SISS Working Group. AGU . Fall Meeting 2014. December 18, 2014. San Francisco, USA. Rain . Freshening: Global. Algorithm. Frank . J. . Wentz and . Thomas . Meissner, . Remote Sensing Systems . Gary . S. . Lagerloef. , . Earth and Space Research. . David M. Le . Vine, . NASA Goddard. Presented at . 7. th. Aquarius/SAC-D Science Meeting. measurements. Wenqing Tang and Simon . Yueh. Jet Propulsion . Laboratoru. y. Drifters. N. of obs.. Pacific GYRE. 183453. MetOcean. 121940. ICM. 114784. http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/smos/. drifters. we compare measured . salinity across . metric distributions. . In . addition to traditional comparisons . between mean or median . values, the . 1%, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 90% and 99% . quantiles of . the statistical . Seung-bum . Kim (JPL). Jae-hak . Lee (Korean Institute of Ocean Science and . Technology). Paolo de Matthaeis. . (GSFC). D. ata provision by I.C. Pang, Jeju Natl. Univ., S. Korea. Funded by OSST. Results available in JGR 2014 special issue.. Salinity. E. P. Dinnat. 1,2. , D. M. Le Vine. 1. , J. Boutin. 3. , X. Yin. 3. , . 1. Cryospheric Sciences Lab., NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, U.S.A. 2. Chapman University, Orange, CA, U.S.A.. 3. LOCEAN, Paris, France. ‘14. ‘12. ‘98. ‘92. ‘93. ‘91. ‘88. ‘87. ‘86. ‘89. ‘90. ‘96. ‘97. ‘13. ‘20. Deployed in 1988. Salt River Canyon, St. Croix USVI. Timeline of Aquarius. 13 missions conducted 1988-1989. Mississippi State University. Geosystems. Research Institute. NASA RPC Review (3/2/09). Aquarius Evaluation Team & Collaborators. MSU Team. Robert Moorhead. Xingang. Fan. Valentine . Anantharaj. Let’s take a look at some footage!. http://. aquarius.uncw.edu. /about/overview. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/projects/space/aquarius/2002/september.html. What is Aquarius?. Underwater laboratory. Home to scientists for up to 10 days. E. Hackert, S. Akella, R. Kovach, K. Nakada, A. Borovikov, A. Molod, K. Drushka, and M. Jacob. Problem. : Satellite observes the top centimeter of the ocean. In rainy conditions, the vertical salinity gradient between SSS and first model layer (i.e., where these data are assimilated - S.