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Information - A1.1 Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Surface Layer, Troposphere, Stratosphere and Mesosphere
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Event Information |
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The remote sounding of atmospheric constituents from space, airborne and ground-based platforms has grown in the past twenty years; it is an essential data provider for research in atmospheric physics and chemistry, and climate change. In addition remote sounding is supporting, sustaining and developing operational meteorological objectives, e.g. improved numerical weather prediction and the development of the chemical weather forecasting.
A large number of missions have already demonstrated significant capabilities in response to the scientific and societal need for global observations of key atmospheric parameters: NASA/NOAA TOMS, SAGE, SBUV, LITE, UARS, the ESA GOME, NSADA ADEOS-I, NASA Terra and Aqua, ESA ENVISAT and Odin missions have all been launched successfully and have returned, or are returning, high quality observations. Recently the NASA Aura mission was launched and other satellites in the A-train are expected; the NOAA NPP/NPOESS and EUMESAT/ESA Metop-1 are planned for launch.
This symposium, A1.1, brings together several related subject areas in a similar way to the most recent COSPAR symposiums. Indeed a fundamental goal is to understand the advances that have been made in the last four years. The following applications are intended to be foci for this session :
a) the capability and use of tropospheric remote sensing from space,
b) atmosphere land exchange,
c) ocean atmosphere exchange,
d) stratospheric tropospheric exchange processes, the UTLS region,
e) stratospheric trace constituents and the changing ozone layer,
f) the Earth radiation budget,
g) hydrological cycle, clouds and aerosols,
h) Climate change and the observation of greenhouse constituents
i) stratospheric mesospheric coupling.
j) Joint Session with A2.1 and A3.1 on interactions of the land, ocean and atmosphere as seen from space.
In addition such topics as retrieval algorithm development, instrument calibration, data product validation and the development of new sensors will be addressed. The primary objective of the session is understanding the earth atmosphere system as viewed from an atmospheric standpoint.
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Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers |
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E. Hilsenrath (NASA), J. Waters (JPL), P. Bernath (Waterloo, Canada), J. Greenhough (Leicester, UK), D. Murtagh (Chalmers, Sweden), J. Burrows (Bremen, Germany), A. Bourassa (Saskatchewan, Canada), F. Lefevre (Toulouse, France), G. Brasseur (Hamburg, Germany).
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