at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Area of Expertise:
Microwave Remote Sensing ,
SST and satellite Radiances ,
MW Land surface temperature ,
IR Remote Sensing ,
GPS signal propagation ,
Microwave Remote Sensing
Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) is a National Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service (NESDIS) clear-sky radiance and sea surface temperature (SST) retrieval system. It provides clearsky
top of the atmosphere (TOA) observed brightness temperatures (BT) in AVHRR channels 3B(3.7 μm), 4(11 μm), and
5(12 μm) and SST retrieved from these BTs, along with their modeled values calculated with the fast community
radiative transfer model (CRTM), using first-guess level 4 (L4) SST (Reynolds daily optimum interpolation SST;
OISST) and upper air (NCEP-GFS) fields as inputs. The simulated first-guess BTs are used for accurate ACSPO clearsky
mask estimation, physical SST retrievals, monitoring sensor performance, and CRTM validation. Model minus
observation (M-O) biases are continuously monitored using the near-real time online-tool, Monitoring of IR Clear-sky
radiances over Oceans for SST (MICROS; www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/micros/). This study tests eleven different
gap free L4 SSTs as potential first-guess input fields in ACSPO to improve accuracies of simulated BTs. These L4 SST
fields are being cross-compared and validated with quality controlled in situ data in L4-SST Quality Monitor (SQUAM;
http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/squam/L4/). In this paper, L4 SSTs are evaluated by comparing them with the
ACSPO L2 SST product. Three metrics including the global spatial variance of the L4-L2 biases, and their temporal
stability along with the corresponding double-differences, are used to test the performance of these L4 SSTs. It is
generally observed that the Group for High-Resolution SST (GHRSST) Multi-Product Ensemble (GMPE), Canadian
Meteorological Centre (CMC 0.2°) and UKMO OSTIA provide more consistent first-guess SST fields for use in
ACSPO.
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