Reference Instruments and their Traceability

Agenda

10min

Tim Hewison

(Chair)

Agree Agenda

Any Other Business

30min

Jack Xiong

(NASA)

Design and Performance of MODIS calibration

10min

Ruediger Lang (EUMETSAT)

Potential of GOME-2 as a inter-calibration reference

10min

Fred Wu (NOAA!)

Traceability concepts - General

10min

10min

Ruediger Kessel (NIST)

Dave Walker (NIST)

Traceability concepts - General

Traceability of microwave measurements

20min

Dave Young (NASA)

An introduction to the CLARREO solar band spectrometer

Postponed until next web meeting

0min

TBD

Report on Comparison of AIRS and IASI

- postponed until next web meeting

30min

All

Discussion

Attendees

EUMETSAT: Tim Hewison (Chair), Marianne König, Ruediger Lang

NOAA: Fangfang Yu, Fred Wu, Bob Iacovazzi

NASA: Jack Xiong, Dave Young, Kurt Thome, Dave Doelling

NIST: Rüdiger Kessel, Dave Walker

CMA: Yuan Li, Lin Chen, Yong Rhang, Mi Liao, Ronghua Wu

CNES: Denis Blumstein, Bertrand Fougnie

JMA: Hiromi Owada

Key Points

Jack Xiong had been invited to this web meeting to provide a thorough overview of the MODIS calibration system and its suitability for use as a reference for the inter-calibration of the solar band channels of other satellite instruments. This made it clear that a great deal of effort has been put into both pre-launch characterisation and analysis of in-flight data. The stability demonstrated over ~10 years gives us confidence that MODIS can provide a good radiometric reference for inter-calibration of channels in the solar band. Of particular interest to this meeting was the error budget Jack presented breaking down numerous contributions from different parts of the calibration system to the overall uncertainty.This suggested overall uncertainties on reflectivity is typically ~1.57% for most channels in the solar band.

Ruediger Lang reported on comparisons of AVHRR and GOME2 on Metop-A that had been done by Rutherford Appleton Labs (UK). He showed these comparison were valuable to identify shifts in the geolocation of GOME2 data, which were needed to improve the correlation of these instruments. This method is now under further development at EUMETSAT for instrument monitoring purposes. It was suggested that GOME2 could be a valuable research tool for GSICS to allow the investigation of any anomolies found in the inter-calibration of solar channels against an operational reference. For example, the hyperspectral sampling of GOME2 could be exploited to investigate potential changes to the Spectral Response Function of other instruments.

Fred Wu and Rüdiger Kessel provided different points of view on the concept of traceability on practical and theoretical basis. These were followed up by Dave Walker, who reported on NIST's programme on microwave radiometry. This include the development of an SI-based standard black body target and a standard reference radiometer. He stated their intention to produce a 'Best Practice' document, similar to NISTIR7637, to "aid designers/builders in standardizing procedures and analysis". He has also proposed a workshop on this subject aiming to work towards SI traceability for microwave radiometry, which is likely to take place in summer 2011 in the USA.

Due to time constraints, Dave Young's presentation on the use of CLARREO as a reference instrument for inter-calibration of solar band channels was postponed until the next web meeting.

In the discussions, it was suggested that GSICS adopt MODIS as a solar channel reference for now, with the intention to migrate to CLARREO when it becomes available. Further discussions, including the method of transferring to a new reference instrument will be followed-up at the next web meeting.

-- TimHewison - 04 May 2010
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2010_06_22_GISCS.pptppt 2010_06_22_GISCS.ppt manage 2 MB 18 Jun 2010 - 13:58 TimHewison Overview of MODIS Reflective Solar Bands Calibration and Performance
CLARREO_for_GSICS_06_22_10.pptxpptx CLARREO_for_GSICS_06_22_10.pptx manage 3 MB 22 Jun 2010 - 06:55 TimHewison An Introduction to the CLARREO Reflected Solar Instrument and Reference Intercalibration Strategy
Concept_study_-_AVHRR_GOME-2_radiance_inter-comparison_web.pptxpptx Concept_study_-_AVHRR_GOME-2_radiance_inter-comparison_web.pptx manage 4 MB 22 Jun 2010 - 10:35 TimHewison Potential of GOME-2 as a inter-calibration reference
GRWG_Walker_1006122.pdfpdf GRWG_Walker_1006122.pdf manage 549 K 22 Jun 2010 - 06:57 TimHewison Traceability of microwave measurements
ReferenceInstrumentsTraceability.pptppt ReferenceInstrumentsTraceability.ppt manage 159 K 21 Jun 2010 - 09:13 TimHewison Agenda and Discussion Points
Traceability01.pptppt Traceability01.ppt manage 81 K 22 Jun 2010 - 06:51 TimHewison An introduction to traceability
Wu_Traceability_to_Ref._Instr.pptxpptx Wu_Traceability_to_Ref._Instr.pptx manage 1 MB 22 Jun 2010 - 04:10 XiangqianWu Some issues of traceability to reference instrument
Topic revision: r15 - 16 Nov 2010, AleksandarJelenak
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