2012 Aquarius Science Cal/Val Workshop

2012 Aquarius Science Cal/Val Workshop
October 29 - November 1, 2012
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

Held at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the October 2012 Aquarius Science Calibration/Validation workshop focused on reviewing the post-launch Calibration/Validation plan, and making decisions on the path toward Version 2.0 processing.

Agenda
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Antenna Temperature Calibration Working Group Briefing
Piepmeier, J. (31-Oct-12). A briefing by the Antenna Temperature Calibration Working Group (TA-WG), including the findings investigating geophysical model errors, instrument errors and dynamic range..

Aquarius Radiometer Stability/Correlations
Neumann, G., Yueh, S., Fore, A., Freedman, A., Hayashi, A. and Tang, W. (31-Oct-12). Presented at the 2012 Aquarius Calibration/Validation Workshop at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Aquarius Radiometric Calibration V1.3.5 Data
Fore, A. (31-Oct-12). The results of radiometer calibration over the Amazon. Over land, significant ascending/descending bias was observed. Over the ocean, the data is not consistent with land estimates, and scaling is recommended.

Aquarius Scatterometer Only and Combined Active Passive Wind Retrieval Metrics
Fore, A., Yueh, S. and Tang, W. (31-Oct-12). Wind speed was retrieved using scatterometer only and then with the Combined Active Passive (CAP) method. CAP was found to perform best, most significantly so at higher wind speeds.

Aquarius Scatterometer Stability
Neumann, G., Yueh, S., Fore, A., Freedman, A., Hayashi, A. and Tang, W. (31-Oct-12). An analysis of scatterometer stability. A slight increase in Sigma0 over the mission was observed using double-difference. Most of the increas was in the first two to three months of the mission. The instrument may have contributed to this, and requires further investigation.

Ascending-Descending Differences
Melnichenko, O., Hacker, P., Maximenko, N. and Potemra, J. (31-Oct-12). This presentation discusses the differences in the ascending and descending swaths of Aquarius data, as well as potential sources for the differences.

Comparison to Argo Buoys
Lagerloef, G. (31-Oct-12). A review of Aquarius-retrieved salnity as compared to salnity from Argo buoys, from August 2011-October 2012.

Comparison to Argo Buoys
Lagerloef, G. (31-Oct-12). A review of Aquarius-retrieved salnity as compared to salnity from Argo buoys, from August 2011-October 2012.

EOF Analysis of dSSS for Three Beams: Year-Long Data Analysis
Kao, H-Y. (31-Oct-12). Presented at the 2012 Aquarius Calibration/Validation Workshop at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Preliminary Estimates to Separate dTf and dTe in the dTa Update with V1.3.5
Lagerloef, G. (31-Oct-12). Presented at the 2012 Aquarius Calibration/Validation Workshop at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Statistics for Monthly Averages of Aquarius SSS Retrievals
Meissner, T., and Wentz, F. (31-Oct-12). Presented at the 2012 Aquarius Calibration/Validation Workshop at Goddard Space Flight Center.