Recent Advances in Satellite Data Rescue
| Autor: | Karsten Fennig, Dieter Oertel, Stephan Bojinski, Mirko Albani, Jörg Schulz, Shinya Kobayashi, Pascal Brunel, Viju O. John, James Johnson, Atheer F. Al-Jazrawi, Dieter Klaes, W. Döhler, Paul Poli, Irina Gerasimov, David Santek, Dorothée Coppens, Emily Zamkoff, Roger Saunders, Peter Rayer, Kenneth Holmlund, Dick Dee, Asghar E. Esfandiari, D. Spänkuch, Marc Schröder |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences business.industry 0208 environmental biotechnology Environmental resource management Climate change 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences 020801 environmental engineering Geography Data access Satellite data Environmental monitoring Satellite Weather satellite business Meteorological satellite 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Remote sensing |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 98:1471-1484 |
| ISSN: | 1520-0477 0003-0007 |
| DOI: | 10.1175/bams-d-15-00194.1 |
| Popis: | To better understand the impacts of climate change, environmental monitoring capabilities must be enhanced by deploying additional and more accurate satellite- and ground-based (including in situ) sensors. In addition, reanalysis of observations collected decades ago but long forgotten can unlock precious information about the recent past. Historical, in situ observations mainly cover densely inhabited areas and frequently traveled routes. In contrast, large selections of early meteorological satellite data, waiting to be exploited today, provide information about remote areas unavailable from any other source. When initially collected, these satellite data posed great challenges to transmission and archiving facilities. As a result, data access was limited to the main teams of scientific investigators associated with the instruments. As archive media have aged, so have the mission scientists and other pioneers of satellite meteorology, who sometimes retired in possession of unique and unpublished information. This paper presents examples of recently recovered satellite data records, including satellite imagery, early infrared hyperspectral soundings, and early microwave humidity soundings. Their value for climate applications today can be realized using methods and techniques that were not yet available when the data were first collected, including efficient and accurate observation simulators and data assimilation into reanalyses. Modern technical infrastructure allows serving entire mission datasets online, enabling easy access and exploration by a broad range of users, including new and old generations of climate scientists. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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