PPT-Aquarius Scatterometer Calibration and Bias Drift Correctio

Alex Fore Simon Yueh Wenqing Tang Akiko Hayashi Drift in Scatterometer Calibration A very small drift in the scatterometer calibration can be observed over the first few months Magnitude of drift is order 01 dB. D. Vandemark, H. . Feng. Univ. of New Hampshire/EOS. N. . Reul. , F. . . Ardhuin. , B. . Chapron. . IFREMER/Centre de Brest. within . Aq. Cal/Val team efforts. OSST Meeting 2012. 2. OSST 2012. Overview. 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. 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. Major references. Calibration lecture is not in the book.. Kennedy, Marc C., and Anthony O'Hagan. "Bayesian calibration of computer models." . Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series B . (2001).. If you spend $50,000.00 dollars per year on chemical!. We divide that cost by the number of nozzles on your sprayer. For instance: . $50,000.00/26=$1923.08 dollars per nozzle. . . If we allow for 10% wear factor it means you are wasting . Sky . Calibration. Aquarius: D. M. Le Vine. MWR: J. C. Gallo. Definition. Cold Sky Calibration: The observatory rotates 180 deg around its pitch axis from the normal Earth-viewing mode to a “sky” viewing mode. Wendy . Tang and S. Yueh. CAP_RC has the smallest RMSD and close to zero bias with respect to the buoy SSS at 1 m depth.. REMSS SSS in general has a negative bias (-0.2 . psu. ) and larger RMSD in the western Pacific and Indian Ocean. Is this a surface stratification effect?. 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. 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.. ‘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. Robert O. Miller. Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO. Miller, 2013. Method Performance. Bias (accuracy) and precision is best depicted by the target bulls eye. . Soil Analysis Bias and Precision . sPHENIX. TPC. B.Azmoun. , BNL. Laser beams as a Calibration tool. Objective: Use 266nm laser (4.66eV) to liberate charge along beam trajectory to simulate controlled particle tracks in TPC (long history for using laser beams in gaseous detectors). 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. Laser Calibration System for sPHENIX TPC B.Azmoun , BNL Laser beams as a Calibration tool Objective: Use 266nm laser (4.66eV) to liberate charge along beam trajectory to simulate controlled particle tracks in TPC (long history for using laser beams in gaseous detectors)