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Improving Atmospheric Temperature Monitoring Capabilities Letter Report (2000) / Chapter Skim
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1. Satellite Observing System
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... 1. SATELLITE OBSERVING SYSTEM 1.1 Rigorous Station-Keeping Finding: Climate monitoring using polar orbiting satellites is significantly impacted as a spacecraft drifts from a fixed local crossing time and fixed altitude (Waliser and Zhou, ~ 997; Christy et al., ~ 99S, 2000; Wentz and Schabel, 1998~.
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... 0 satellite series will be produced independently by the United States and Europe, but will carry a core set of nearly identical instruments to ensure operational data continuity and coherence of the key meteorological observations. The MetOp satellites will carry instruments provided by EUMETSAT, NOAA (which will cnntrih'~te e ~ AM!
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... . Recommendation B: NESDIS and NASA should consider the cost effectiveness of including NPOESS free fliers (i.e., a spacecraft separate from the main operational platform in an orbit customized for the unique measurement required)
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... The United States does not support research to produce CDRs of stratospheric temperatures derived from a combination of the older SSU data and the newer AMSU data. Recommendation: NESDIS should take responsibility for the construction and validation of CDR-quality bulk-layer temperature time series from the SSU and AMSU for the analysis of stratospheric climate variations and trends.
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Key Terms

  • local crossing
  • time series
  • upper air
  • polar orbiting
  • satellite series

  • temperature record
  • orbit insertion
  • climate observations
  • overlapping observations
  • calibration drifts

  • climate monitoring
  • operational data
  • stratospheric temperatures
  • climate investigators
  • ssu data

  • atmospheric temperature
  • insertion solution
  • equator crossing
  • orbiting spacecraft
  • radiometer components

  • nominal equator
  • tropospheric temperature
  • temperature monitoring
  • issues pertaining
  • analysis comparing

  • precision thermistors
  • minimally suitable
  • addresses issues
  • npoess based
  • situ observations


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