Syllabus

1.        Introduction. Scope. Operational and Research Satellites. EOSClass Projects

·Simpson J., et al., 1988: TRMM: A Satellite Mission to Measure Tropical Rainfall, Report of the Science Steering Group, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771.

2.    The Atmospheric Environment. Ozone and aerosol. Satellite Orbits. SeaTrack.

·Grossman, R., 1972: The atmospheric environment in Remote Sensing of the Troposphere, Derr, V.E., (Ed.), NOAA, Wave Propagation Lab., ERL, Boulder, CO.

3.    Radiative Transfer. SBDART

·Electromagnetic waves, Class notes from CSI 753

·Ricchiazzi, P., S. Yang, C. Gautier, and D. Sowie, 1998: SBDART: A research and teaching software tool for plane-parallel radiative transfer in the Earth's atmosphere, BAMS, 79 (10), 2101-2114.

·Kidder, S. and T. Vondar Haar: Satellite Meteorology, Charter 3. Radiative transfer. Academic Press

4.    Satellite Instrumentation. VIS/IR sensors, PW and active microwave sensors, TRMM VIRS, TMI and PR. AMSR.

·Kummerow C., W. Barnes, T. Kozi, J. Shiue, and J. Simpson, 1998: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Sensor Package, J. Atmo Oceanic Tech., 15, 809-817.

5.    Passive Microwave Algorithms and Development. MW RT code. Neural Network Approach.

·Hollinger, J., et al., 1987: SSM/I user's guide, NRL

6.Atmospheric Sensing. Clouds. Temperature and humidity profile. Sounding Techniques

·Barnet, C., 1998; Advances in Remote Sounding.

·Kidder and Vonder Haar, 1995: chapter 6 and 8.

7. Precipitation

·Wilheit, T., C. Kummerow, and R. Ferraro, 1999: EOS/AMSR Rainfall ATBD.

·Chiu, L., 1992: Satellite rain estimation in the Taiwan area, Appendix A.

·Kidder and Vonder Haar: Chapter 9.

8.     Error Estimates. Error type. Beamfilling error. Bias and random error. Sampling. Diurnal Bias.

• Chiu, L. et al., 1991: Rain estimation from satellites: Effect of finite field of view, JGR, 95, 2177-2185.
• Bell, T. and P. K. Kundu, 1996: A study of the sampling error of satellite rainfall estimation using optimal averaging of data and a stochastic model. J. Climatology, 9, 1251-1268.
• Chang A., and L. Chiu, 1999: Nonsystematic error of monthly oceanic rainfall derived from SSM/I, Mon. Weath. Rev., 127, 1630-1638.
• Wilheit, T., A. Chang and L. Chiu, 1991: Retrieval of monthly rainfall indices from microwave radiometric measurements using probability distribution functions. J. Atmo. Ocean. Tech., 8, 118-136.
• Chang, A., L. Chiu and G. Yang: 1995: Diurnal cycle of oceainc precipitation from SSM/I, MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW, Vol. 123, No. 11, 3371-3380.

9.    Ocean Algorithms: cloud, aerosol, and SST

• Wentz, F., and T. Meissner, 2000: ATBD AMSR Ocean Algorithm.

• Njoku, E., 1990: Satellite remotes sensing of sea surface temperature, in Surface waves and fluxes, L. Geeraert amd W. J.Plants (Edit.), Kluwer Academic Pub.

10.    Land Algorithms: Soil moisture, Land surface temperature

·Njoku, E., 1999:AMSR Land Surface Parameters, ATBD.

·Owe,M., et al., 1992: Surface moisture and satellite microwave observations in semiarid southern Africa. Water Resources Research, 28 (3), 829-839.

·Jackson, T., and T. Schmugge, 1989: Passive microwave remote sensing system for soil moisture: some supporting research. IEEE Tran. Geoscience and remote sensing, 27 (2), 225-235.

11.    Cyrosphere- snow, sea ice. ESMR, SMMR, and SSM/I

·Chang A. T-C., et al., 2000: Algorithm Theoretic Basis Document (ATBD) for the AMSR-E Snow Water Equivalent Algorithm.

·Cavalieri, D., and J. Comiso, 2000: ATBD for the AMSR-E Sea Ice Algorithm.

·Carsey, F., (Editor) 1992: Microwave remote sensing of sea ice. Geophysical Monograph 68, AGU. (Chapters 2, 3, and 4)

·Gurney, R., J. Foster, and C. Parkinson, (Editors): 1993: Part VII: Cryosphere in Atlas of satellite observations related to global change, Cambridge Univ. Press.

Useful Web Sites:

Remote Sensing Tutorial:

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. TRMM. . TSDIS OrbitViewer

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center GES DISC.

Polar Satellite Precipitation Data Center . GSFC PSPDC.

Seasonal-to-Interannual Earth Science Information Partnership SIESIP.

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Algorithm Theoretic Basis Documents AMSR ATBDs

Moderate Resolution Interferometer Spectralradiometer MODIS ATBDs

US Hourly Precipitation Data hpd