NASA-ROSES
Project Kick-Off Meeting: 13 April 2007, Univ of Washington
The NW-AIRQUEST NASA-ROSES project developed satellite data retrieval capabilities for tropospheric air pollutants for
various uses in the AIRPACT-3 forecasting system. Below is an example of OMI satellite NO2 and AIRPACT-3 forecasted NO2
results for February 1, 2007. » View more AIRPACT Satellite Products
OMI satellite NO2 results
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AIRPACT-3 predicted NO2 results
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Project Overview
This work seeks to improve existing meteorological, air quality and smoke forecasting systems by infusing them
with NASA Earth System Science results. The projects proposed for satellite data enhancement are the MM5
numerical weather forecast system, the Air Indicator Report for Public Awareness and Community Tracking
(AIRPACT) Eulerian air-quality forecasting system and the ClearSky agricultural field burn smoke forecasting
systems, three projects of the Northwest Air Quality Environmental Science & Technology consortium
(NW-AIRQUEST). NASA Earth-Sun system research products offer potential improvement in meteorological modeling
underlying all of our air quality (AQ) modeling, initial and boundary conditions for AQ modeling, and
verification and evaluation. Two principal uses for Earth-Sun system research products (ESRP) are planned:
(1) Improving forecast accuracy through use of more representative and spatially resolved boundary and
initial conditions (and emissions) for both meteorological and atmospheric chemistry variables for
the meteorological and AQ models, and (2) improving system evaluation through comparison of model results
with ESRP data, for example comparison of forecast winds with ESRP winds and comparison of column
abundances of pollutants species with model results. The ESRP satellite instrument products sought are:
GOES water-vapor and cloud track and QuikSCAT SeaWinds Scatterometer winds Terra MISR Leaf Area Index and Fractional PAR for phenology of vegetation Terra MOPPIT and Aura OMI tropospheric retrievals for ozone and carbon monoxide Forest-Service-STI BlueSkyRAINS project MODIS-derived fire emissions Terra (or Aqua) MODIS column aerosol mass.
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