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NOAA/NESDIS support of ESA’s ADM/Aeolus mission
Lars Peter Riishojgaard
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
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Overview
• ADM/Aeolus– Mission highlights– NWP relevance– Data policy– Baseline ground segment– US role
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ADM highlights
• Tech demo mission to be launched in 2011• First space-borne demonstration of wind lidar
measurement• Potentially a large contributor to NWP skill
– Currently, the Global Observing System is dominated by mass (temperature) measurement
– No direct, vertically resolved wind measurement available over uninhabited regions
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ADM-Aeolus
• Doppler Wind Lidar
• Cross-track HLOS winds
• HLOS (z) = 2-3 m/s
• Profiles 0–30 [email protected] km
• Once every 200 km length
• Aerosol and molecular measurement channel
• Dawn-dusk polar-orbiter
• Launch date June 2011
www.esa.int/esaLP/LPadmaeolus.html
(Stoffelen et al., BAMS, 2005)
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Current Upper Air Mass & Wind Data Coverage for operational NWP
Upper AirMass Observations
Upper AirWind Observations
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ADM data policy
• ADM/Aeolus is an R&D mission, but … due to the value of these observations to
NWP, ESA and WMO are making ADM part of the WMO Global Observing System
• Unprecedented step for ESA• Data will be made available to the WMO
member NMHS’s in “real time” • Disseminated via the GTS
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Baseline ground segment
• Single receiving station at Svalbard– Full orbital dumps; 50 Mb of science data
per orbit– 110 s total visibility required for one orbit
• 30 s for antenna locking• 80 s for data dump• Any additional data may require additional time
(e.g. QRT or stored orbits)
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NRT stream
– Near Real Time, defined as data (level 1B) having latency of 3 h or less for the end user
– NRT is targeted for global NWP and should in principle be available for all orbits
– Low ADM orbit height => blind orbits in spite of high latitude of Svalbard
– WMO requirement for global NWP is 1 h
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QRT stream
• Quasi Real Time data targeted at regional NWP and other applications– Latency of 30 min or less– Assuming 20 (or 15) minutes total processing
time, the QRT stream will consist of the last 10 (or 15) minutes of the orbit dumped either at the beginning of the pass (“AEAP”) or at the end of the pass (“ALAP”)
– No Southern Hemisphere QRT data in Svalbard only scenario
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QRT “AEAP” Scenario using Svalbard and Troll, assuming 15 (red+blue) or 20 minutes (blue) total processing time
(all figures courtesy of H. Nett, ESA/ESTEC)
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QRT (II)
• QRT availability for Europe is guaranteed under combined Troll/Svalbard scenario
• QRT will not be available for North America under this scenario
• However, a receiving station at Troll now appears unlikely due to financial constraints
• On request from LPR, ESA has studied implications of adding either Wallops or Svalbard as additional ground receiving stations
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ADM pass duration at Svalbard (red) and Fairbanks (green)
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ADM pass duration (elevation > 2 deg) at Svalbard (red) and Wallops (blue)
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ADM pass duration (elevation > 1 deg) at Svalbard (red) and Wallops (blue)
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QRT “AEAP” Scenario using Svalbard and Wallops, assuming 15 (red+blue) or 20 minutes (blue) total processing time
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QRT (III)
• Fairbanks adds relatively little to QRT scenario; sees basically the same orbits as Svalbard; adds robustness for NRT stream
• Due to near-perfect longitude, Wallops is a useful addition in spite of the low latitude
• Assuming 1 deg minimum elevation angle, Northern Hemisphere QRT will be available for all orbits under Svalbard/Wallops scenario
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US involvement
• NOAA/NESDIS owns suitable antennas at Wallops Island; currently not fully utilized
• Dedicating an antenna to ADM as a secondary receiving station for a few (<6) orbits per day, 2-3 minutes per orbit would accomplish the following– Guarantee QRT (< 30 min latency) for eastern
North America– Add robustness and reliability of global NRT data
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Recent development
• Kathy Kelly, NOAA/NESDIS briefed by LPR and WB on May 15, 2009– Kelly has verified technical feasibility with OSO staff; cost
not seen as a major issue– Subject brought to the attention of the NESDIS AA who
expressed support• COPC (Committee for Operational Processing
Centers) briefed by LPR on October 22, 2009– Formal request for NOAA ground support for ADM being
submitted to NESDIS by COPC Principals
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Current status• Technical requirements being investigated by
NESDIS/OSO (Amburgey)– Antennas, hardware, software, data
transmission options, …• MoU for ground support being drafted by
NESDIS/OSD (Yoe)• Opportunity for broader NOAA involvement in
ADM and other wind lidar activities? (LPR, MH)
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