GSFC/UMD
TRACE-P Homepage (URL to be announced)
Tracer
Transport during TRACE-P: Flight Planning and Interpretation
with Satellite Maps, Ozone Profiles and Trajectory-based Analysis Tools.
We will
provide tools for focused flight planning, based on those employed
successfully during SONEX and PEM-Tropics B
[Thompson et al., JGR(105), 3595ff, 2000]. These include daily tropospheric
ozone maps, satellite imagery, forecast
trajectories, and trajectory-based model products showing influences of dust,
smoke and aviation emissions on the TRACE-P
sampling region at flight level [Meijer et al., JGR(105), 3833ff, 2000]. All
imagery and model plots will be sent by ftp to the
field and posted simultaneously on our team’s website. Ozone validation of
the new TOMS- based maps will be performed
with TRACE-P aircraft and ozonesonde data [Thompson and Hudson, JGR(104), 2696ff,
1999; Frolov et. al., 2000].
Two
types of post-mission analyses will be performed:
1. Determination
of ozone and other tracer origins using remote sensing data and
trajectory-based products.
Emphasis will be on evaluating the impact of biomass burning and deep convection
on ozone sampled from Hong
Kong and Guam. Remote sensing (TOMS, ISCCP, GMS, SeaWIFS) show convection and
biomass burning to
be important in the February-April months.
2. Tropospheric
ozone satellite data (MR-TTO, TDOT) will be evaluated, reprocessed
if necessary and distributed.
Principal
Investigator: Anne M. Thompson
NASA/Goddard
Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch
Code 916, Greenbelt, MD 20771
thompson@gator1.gsfc.nasa.gov
phone: 301-614-5731
fax: 301-614-5903
Team
Members:
R. D.
Hudson - UMD hudson@metosrv2.umd.edu
K. E. Pickering - UMD pickerin@metosrv2.umd.edu
A. D. Frolov - UMD frolov@metosrv2.umd.edu
C. R. McClain - GSFC mcclain@calval.gsfc.nasa.gov
T. L. Kucsera - EITI at GSFC tom.kucsera@gsfc.nasa.gov
(Webmaster) J.
C. Witte - EITI at GSFC witte@gavial.gsfc.nasa.gov
SUMMARY OF MODEL PRODUCTS AND ANALYSES FOR TRACE-P
Product |
Producer |
Data
or Image Label in Archive |
MR-TTO
Maps |
Thompson/Hudson |
UMD
link to URL: http://metosrv2.umd.edu/~tropo; MRYYMMDD |
TDOT
Maps |
Frolov |
UMD
homepage (TBA); TDYYMMDD. |
Absorbing
Aerosols |
Kucsera/TOMS |
TOMS
URL: http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov; TSYYMMDD. |
Lightning
Imagery |
Thompson/MSFC |
LOYYMMDD |
SeaWIFS
Imagery |
McClain |
GSFC
link to SeaWIFS URL: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov |
Air
Parcel Exposure |
Kucsera/Thompson |
Aircraft
exposure (EAYYMMDD) and Aerosol exposure (EDYYMMDD). |
Mission
Plots |
Kucsera/Thompson |
Std.
analyses (T, geopot. ht., PV, winds) on theta, pressure
sfc.
PP, PT, CP products.
|
Flt.
track Back-trj. |
Kucsera/Thompson |
BTYYMMDD |
RDF |
L.
Lait (GSFC) |
Reverse
domain fill, PV; RDYYMMDD. |
|