AMSRE SSTs in the

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AMSR-E SSTs in the Multi-sensor Improved SST
(MISST) for GODAE A US contribution to
GHRSST-PP Research, Data, and Impacts
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Outline

• Overview of project
• Future plans

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MISST

• 5-year project funded in 2004 by NOPP
• Project ended 5/31/2009
• So. What was accomplished?

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Key successes 2004-2009

• Demonstrated positive impact of AMSR-E SSTs on
  hurricane track forecasts (Navy), hurricane
  intensity forecasts (NOAA), operational SST
  products (NOAA and Navy).
• US Navy operationally utilizes AMSR-E SSTs in
  their K10 analysis and is experimenting with
  using it in their NOGAPS SST
• NOAA is operationally utilizing AMSR-E SSTs in
  their N-AWIPS workstations
• Operational weather/ocean forecasting use of
  AMSR-E SSTs
• Australia Bureau of Meteorology Bluelink SSTs
• France IFREMER/CERSAT Odyssea
• UK Met Office OSTIA-SST

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MISST SST Data

• NAVOCEANO L2P AVHRR LAC 16/17/18
• L2P AVHRR GAC 16/17/18
• L2P AVHRR METOP-A
• L4 K10
• RSS L2P TMI, AMSR-E orbital
• L3P TMI, AMSR-E gridded
• L4 MWIR OI SST
• NOAA L2P GOES-EastWest
• L4 Reynolds AVHRRAMSR OI
• L4 Reynolds AVHRR OI
• JPL GDAC L2P MODIS TerraAqua
• RSMAS
• Successful production of 15 SST L2P/L3P datasets
  with time of observation, location, bias,
  standard deviation, ., 4 L4 products

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NAVOCEANO

• Impact at NAVOCEANO/NRL
• Access to multiple SST data sets from national
  and international providers
• More data into K10, MODAS, and NCODA analyses
  (testing MSG AATSR FRAC)
• K10 now operationally uses AVHRR LAC, AVHRR GAC,
  GOES, and AMSR-E data
• NCODA has been designed to assimilate multiple
  data sets, currently it assimilates AVHRR, GOES,
  AMSR-E, AATSR, MSG
• Evaluation of HYCOM use of improved NCODA
• Evaluation of AMSR-E SSTs on hurricane track and
  intensity forecasts
• Prioritized feedback
• Positive impact on NAVOCEANO operations More
  data sources
• Evaluation of analysis improvement
• Better uncertainty estimates
• Diurnal model
• Improves hurricane TRACK and intensity forecasts

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Gulf of Mexico HYCOM

• 1/25? HYCOM model running in real-time in Gulf of
  Mexico
• GoM HYCOM being used as LBC in CODAE models (ROMS
  and HYCOM)
• Assimilates all sources GHRSST data plus in situ
  (ships and buoys)
• NOAA AVHRR (GAC and LAC), METOP AVHRR (GAC and
  LAC)
• GOES 10/11 SST, AMSR-E MW, AATSR, MSG (but not
  in footprint)

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HYCOM evaluation
15/01/06
15/01/06

HYCOM
MISST
24/09/05
24/09/05
Cold tongue index for AVHRR, AVHRR/AMSRE, MISST,
and HYCOM
Thirteen-day running mean SST time series for the
ye ar 2006 at location NDBC buoy 420003
(eastern Gulf of Mexico - 26 03 59N 085 56
39W)
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NCODA SSTs in COAMPS Katrina simulations

• Improved track forecast
• Better enthalpy fluxes
• Better intensity forecasts

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NOAA

• Impact at NOAA
• Development of sensor errors for GOES
• Improvements to three NOAA OI SSTs NOAA
  POES/GOES and Reynolds AVHRR AMSR-EAVHRR OI
  SST
• Bring Reynolds AMSR-EAVHRR SST to the National
  Centers Advanced Weather Interactive Processing
  System (N-AWIPS) operational workstations
• Development of LTSRF at NODC (international
  archive)
• Prioritized feedback
• Positive impact on operational SSTs feeding into
  NWP and responding to feedback
• Distribution of new high-res SSTs through N-AWIPS
• Emphasized need for more retrospective
  re-analysis (individual products and blended
  products)
• Sustain archive and operational data streams

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N-AWIPS operational workstations use GHRSST
Reynolds AMSR-EAVHRR 25 km and GOES now
available to forecasters
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Public Impacts

• AMSR-E OI SSTs used in An inconvenient Truth
• Imagery prepared by NASA SVS

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National Geographic Ocean Atlas

• Organized around ocean basin each chapter opens
  with an image of the ocean basin using MWIR OI
  SSTs

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Science publication

• Worden, A.Z., et al., "The genomes of Micromonas
  global reporters in marine environments",
  Science, 324(5924), 268-272, DOI10.1126/science.1
  167222., 2009
• Used MWIR OI SSTs

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Fisheries
Ocean Imaging provides commercial and
recreational fisherman with MWIR OI SSTs.
Feedback fishermen have come to depend on these
products as one input used in their day-to-day
decision making
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NASA news articles featuring AMSR-E SSTs

• Give examples of Articles
• Microwave Imager Measures Sea Surface Temperature
  Through Clouds
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images.php3?img_id2918
• Global Sea Surface Temperature from AMSR-E
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images.php3?img_id15305
• La Nina in Progress
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images.php3?img_id17180
• El Nino Chills the Western Pacific Ocean
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images.php3?img_id17501
• Super Typhoon Ioke's Cool Wake
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images.php3?img_id17392
• Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images.php3?img_id17340
• Initial Conditions for the 2006 Atlantic
  Hurricane Season
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images.php3?img_id17292
• El Niño, the Usual Suspect?
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images.php3?img_id10913
• Hurricane Alley Heats Up
• http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImage
  s/images.php3?img_id16996

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Our Changing Planet

• MWIR OI SSTs featured in book chapter written by
  P. Minnett

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June 2010 Cover image article in Oceanography
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2008 NOPP award

• 2008 NOPP Excellence in Partnering Award given to
  MISST project
• 41 peer reviewed journal articles, 12 in diurnal
  warming alone.

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Summary

• MISST project impacted NOAA and US Navy
  operations
• Research results published in journals
• Advances in satellite SST error budget
  estimation, upper ocean physics