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5.11 Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: A Workshop Report
5.11 Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: A Workshop Report
Pages 104-105
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As a result of the June 2006 Nunn-McCurdy certification of NPOESS, the planned acquisition of six spacecraft was reduced to four, the launch of the first spacecraft was delayed until 2013, and several sensors were canceled or descoped in capability as the program was re-focused on "core" requirements related to the acquisition of data to support numerical weather prediction. "Secondary" sensors that would provide crucial continuity to some long-term climate records, as well as other sensors that would have provided new measurement capabilities, are not funded in the new NPOESS program. Costs for NOAA's next generation of geostationary weather satellites, GOES-R, have also risen dramatically, and late last year NOAA canceled plans to incorporate a key instrument on the spacecraft -- HES (Hyperspectral Environmental Suite)
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As a result, some participants heavily favored dedicated altimetry and scatterometry missions to fill this need. Further, some participants noted the critical importance of hyperspectral sounder measurements to climate science, suggesting restoration of CrIS/ ATMS to the early-morning NPOESS orbit as well as the earliest-possible flight of a geostationary hyperspectral sounder to further improve temporal resolution.
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