ARM Radiosondes for Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Validation Field Campaign Report
- Universityof Wisconsin-Madison
- NOAA
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Radiosonde Field Campaign has been a coordinated multi-year effort involving the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW-M), and the JPSS project to validate the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) JPSS operational satellite sounding products. In this arrangement, funding for radiosondes has been provided by the JPSS project to ARM. These radiosondes have been launched coincident with JPSS satellite overpasses at ARM field sites, with UW-M personnel coordinating the radiosonde launch schedules. This work has been a fundamental, integral, and costeffective part of both the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (SNPP) and NOAA20 satellite validation efforts and has provided critical accuracy assessments of the temperature and water vapor soundings. It is anticipated that these effort will continue throughout the lifetime of NOAA20. JPSS validation efforts began in July 2012, with radiosonde launches targeting overpasses of the recently launched SNPP satellite from the ARM sites at the North Slope Alaska (NSA), Southern Great Plains (SGP), and Tropical West Pacific (TWP) at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Launches at TWP ceased in May 2014, with the closure of the site, and launches began at the Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) site in February 2015. Radiosonde launches targeting SNPP continued through January 2018 and a total of 204/443/482/190 SNPP overpasses were targeted at the ENA/NSA/SGP/TWP sites respectively. More information about the SNPP radiosonde launches is provided in Table 1.
- Research Organization:
- DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Contributing Organization:
- NOAA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- DOE Contract Number:
- ACO5-7601830
- OSTI ID:
- 1526023
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SC-ARM-19-009
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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