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Remote sensing of water vapor featuresWater vapor plays a critical role in the atmosphere. It is an important medium of energy exchange between air, land, and water; it is a major greenhouse gas, providing a crucial radiative role in the global climate system; and it is intimately involved in many regional scale atmospheric processes. Our research has been aimed at improving satellite remote sensing of water vapor and better understanding its role in meteorological processes. Our early studies evaluated the current GOES VAS system for measuring water vapor and have used VAS-derived water vapor data to examine pre-thunderstorm environments. Much of that research was described at the 1991 Research Review. A second research component has considered three proposed sensors--the High resolution Interferometer Sounder (HIS), the Multispectral Atmospheric Mapping Sensor (MAMS), and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU). We have focused on MAMS and AMSU research during the past year and the accomplishments made in this effort are presented.
Document ID
19930010918
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Fuelberg, Henry E.
(Florida State Univ. Tallahassee, FL, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA(MSFC FY92 Earth Science and Applications Program Research Review
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
93N20107
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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