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VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises NOAA activities in support of in situ validation observations for satellite ocean color products Veronica P. Lance* With contributions from Mike Ondrusek and VIIRS Cal/Val Cruise Team Members *Global Science & Technology, Inc. 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 8/22/2016 1
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Acknowledgements NOAA/JPSS Ocean Color Cal/Val team Officers and crew of the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster NOAA OMAO NOAA JPSS program NOAA STAR Ocean Color EDR team NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch Central 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 2
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Outline NOAA dedicated to VIIRS Cal/Val cruises: 2014, 2015, upcoming 2016 (and beyond) Collaborations and other cruises of opportunity NOAA Optical Instrument Calibration Lab NOAA support of MOBY and four AERONET-OC sites Data assembly, distribution and archiving 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 3
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises NOAA dedicated to VIIRS Cal/Val cruises: 2014, 2015, upcoming 2016 (and beyond) NOAA Ship Nancy Foster 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 4
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Cruise Tracks Both 2014 (November) and 2015 (December) cruises departed from Foster’s home port of Charleston, SC Dec. 2015 Nov. 2014 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 5
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Next Cruise: 3-21 October 2016 14 days at sea ( 5 days staging, destaging) NOAA Ship Nancy Foster Dec. 2015 From Charleston, SC NF-16-08 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 6
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Participating Institutions US Agencies: Universities: NOAA/STAR U. Southern Mississippi NASA/GSFC U. Miami U. South Florida National Institute of Standards and Technology U. Massachusetts – Boston (NIST) City College of NY Naval Research Lab LDEO at Columbia (Stennis) International: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (2014) 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 7
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Representative Measurements In water profiling, surface floating and above water ocean radiometry Apparent Optical Properties (AOPs) – Remote sensing reflectance - Simultaneous profiles with several instruments (e.g. HyperPro; MicroPro (2014 only); C-OPS; also several handheld and deck-mounted instruments) 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 8
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Representative Measurements In water profiling, surface floating and above water ocean radiometry 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 9
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Representative Measurements In water profiling, surface floating and above water ocean radiometry Inherent Optical Properties ( IOPs) -Total absorption; CDOM absorption; scatter and backscatter; fluorometry (chlorophyll, CDOM, phycoerythrin) 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 10
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Representative Measurements Flow-through continuous measurements IOPs - Beam attenuation/scattering; backscatter; CDOM and chlorophyll fluorescence Phytoplankton characterization Dynamic imaging particle analysis (FlowCam); phytoplankton functional groups; chlorophyll and phycobilipigments; photosynthetic efficiency (2014 only) 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 11
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Representative Measurements Discrete water sampling and analyses Filter pad spectral absorption HPLC phytoplankton pigment analyses CDOM absorption Dissolved organic carbon Particulate organic carbon and particulate nitrogen Fluorometric extracted chlorophyll Suspended particulate material Particle fluorescence and digital imaging (FlowCam) Variable fluorescence (2014 only) Advanced Laser Fluorometer (ALF; 2014 only) Phycobilipigment concentration (2014 only) 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 12
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Large ( 10µm) Phytoplankton Cells 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 13
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises Data Submission and Archiving 2014 Cruise (NF-14-09) Data– Initiated archive with NCEI with data on hand. Ascension number and DOI are TBD. Please submit outstanding datasets. 2014 Cruise (NF-15-13) Data– Assembling datasets now – please submit your data. 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 14
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises 2014 Pg 1 of 2 Accounting of Cruise Data Submissions NF-14-09 Group Dataset NOAA/STAR (Mike) 2014 NOAA/STAR (Mike) Hyperpro profiling (Rrs, etc.) only matchup stations (n 9) ECO Pucks on Hyperpro 2x triplets (Chl, CDOM, phycoerythrin, bb at 443, 450 860) NOAA/STAR (Mike) chl-a fluorometric (method?) NOAA/STAR (Mike) Microtops NOAA/STAR (Mike) ASD (Rrs - above water) NOAA/STAR (Eric) TSM only matchup stations (n 9 this might be everything for handheld) Stennis (Ryan - USM) ASD (Rrs - above water) Stennis (NRL) ASD (Rrs - above water) Stennis (Ryan) Hyperpro (Rrs - floating) ? only matchup stations (n 9; check on whether more stations for floating) Stennis (Bob) Flowthrough ac9 unfiltered (a, b, c) x Stennis (Bob) Flowthrough ac9 filtered (ag, ap, x Stennis (Bob) Stennis (?) Flowthrough (bb) Microtops x UMB (Jianwei) SBA floating hyperpro (Rrs) x UMB (Jianwei) IOP BB9 (bb) x UMB (Jianwei) IOP ACS180 filtered and unfiltered (apg, cpg) x UMB (Junfang) Spectral Evolution Handheld USF (David) Filter Pad Absorption (ap, ad, aph) x USF (David) Chlorophyll (Welschmeyer) x USF (David) Chlorophyll (Acidification) x USF (David) USF (?) 8/22/2016 USF (?) ASD HandHeld above water (Rrs) 7 stations - (this is probably everything they have?) Microtops 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, Hyperpro College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 15
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises 2014 Pg 2 of 2 Group CCNY CCNY CCNY JRC (Giuseppe) JRC (Giuseppe) Dataset Hypersas-POL GER Microtops Micropro (profiling; Es, Ed, Lu, Kl?, Kd, Eu, Ku, R, Q, Rrs nLw x JRC (Giuseppe) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA (Aimee) NASA (Aimee) NASA (Aimee) IOPs in same file, maybe calculated? TRIoS- he says most data no good - good at 5 stations) C-OPS (profilling Rrs: Ed, Lu, Es, IOPS (acs, unfiltered: cgp, agp, ag, ) IOPS (ac9, filtered: ag) IOPS (bb3: bbp) IOPS (VSF-9: VSF) HyperSAS POC DOC CDOM NASA (Aimee/Crystal) LDEO (Joaquim) LDEO (Joaquim) LDEO (Joaquim) LDEO (Joaquim) LDEO (Joaquim) LDEO (Joaquim) U. Miami (Ken) NIST HPLC ALF FIRe bbe phyocobilipigments Flow Cam microscopy NURADS (8 stations) n/a 8/22/2016 2014 x x x x x x x X 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 16
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises 2015 Pg 1 of 2 Accounting of Cruise Data Submissions NF-15-13 Group Dataset NOAA/STAR (Mike) Hyperpro profiling (Rrs) Dec-15 UMB (Jianwei) ECO Pucks on Hyperpro 2x triplets (Chl, CDOM, phycoerythrin, bb at 443, 450 860) chl-a fluorometric (Welschmeyer) ASD (Rrs - above water) TSM ASD (Rrs - above water) ASD (Rrs - above water) Hyperpro (Rrs - floating) Flowthrough ac9 unfiltered (a, b, c) Flowthrough ac9 filtered (ag, ap, Flowthrough (bb) RISBA (was SBA) floating hyperpro (Rrs) IOP BB7FL2 (bb at 412, 440, 488, 532, 595, 695, 715; CDOM fl; Chl fl) UMB (Jianwei) UMB (Guoqing) UMB (Junfang) USF (David) USF (David) USF (David) IOP ACS180 filtered and unfiltered (apg, cpg) Flow Cytobot Spectral Evolution Handheld Filter Pad Absorption (ap, ad, aph) Chlorophyll (Welschmeyer) Chlorophyll (Acidification) USF (David) USF (David) USF (?) USF (?) 8/22/2016 CDOM absorption (new for 2015 from ap sampling) x (rec'd but trouble unzipping) ASD HandHeld above water (Rrs) check for completeness Microtops ? 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, Hyperpro - profiling x (rec'd but trouble unzipping) NOAA/STAR (Mike) NOAA/STAR (Mike) NOAA/STAR (Mike) NOAA/STAR (Eric) Stennis (Ryan - USM) Stennis (NRL) Stennis (Ryan) Stennis (Bob) Stennis (Bob) Stennis (Bob) UMB (Jianwei) College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 check for completeness check for completeness check for completeness check for completeness x (rec'd but trouble unzipping) x (rec'd but trouble unzipping) x (rec'd but trouble unzipping) 17
VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises 2015 Pg 2 of 2 Group Dataset CCNY Hypersas-POL only for matchup stations; only at VIIRS channels CCNY ASD only for matchup stations; only at VIIRS channels CCNY OSU (Nick) OSU (Nick) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA(Scott) NASA (Joaquin C.) NASA (Joaquin C.) NASA (Joaquin C.) NASA (Joaquin C.) LDEO (Joaquim G.) LDEO (Joaquim G.) U. Miami (Ken) NIST GER Hyperpro - profiling Spectral Evolution Handheld C-OPS (profilling Rrs: Ed, Lu, Es, C-OPS (profilling Rrs: Ed, Lu, Es, IOPS (acs, unfiltered: cgp, agp, ag, ) IOPS (ac9, filtered: ag) IOPS (bb3: bbp) IOPS (VSF-9: VSF) HyperSAS POC DOC CDOM HPLC Nutrients (N, P, Si) Flow Cam NURADS (8 stations) n/a 8/22/2016 Dec-15 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 only for matchup stations; only at VIIRS channels x check for completeness X X 18
VIIRS Cal/Val Etc. Collaborations and cruises of opportunity NOAA JPSS/VIIRS external cal/val teams (ongoing) Puerto Rico; Hawaii; Gulf of Mexico; West Coast/California; Chesapeake Bay; etc. NOAA OAR Ocean Acidification Program ECOA – East Coast US WCOA – West Coast US NOAA Coral Reef Watch Puerto Rico; Hawaii; Australia NOAA/STAR research Chesapeake Bay, etc. NASA/South Korea (“KORUS” May-June 2016) Australia CSIRO – June-July 2016 CORAL – Upcoming Late Aug – Oct 2016 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 19
VIIRS Cal/Val Etc. NOAA Optical Instrument Calibration Laboratory (NCWCP, College Park, MD) In collaboration with NIST 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 20
VIIRS Cal/Val Etc. NOAA support of MOBY 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 21
VIIRS Cal/Val Etc. NOAA support of 4 AERONET-OC Sites WavCIS Stennis, Gulf of Mexico Eureka OSU & USC, US West Coast LISCO CCNY, Long Island Sound Lake Erie NOAA/GLERL and UNH 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 22
VIIRS Cal/Val Etc. Summary Successful 2014 and 2015 cruises Next cruise NF-16-08: 3-21 October 2016 (14 days) Participants, please submit outstanding datasets for 2014 & 2015 8/22/2016 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8-12 August 2016 23
College Park, MD, 8 -12 August 2016 Cruise Tracks . Both 2014 (November) and 2015 (December) cruises departed from Foster's home port of Charleston, SC Nov. 2014 . Dec. 2015 . VIIRS Cal/Val Cruises 8/22/2016 6 2016 STAR/JPSS Annual Science Meeting, College Park, MD, 8 -12 August 2016
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VIIRS Imagery (Critical Non -KPP) VIIRS Ice Concentration . CrIS/ATMS-NUCAPS Moisture Profile : VIIRS Imagery (Non -Critical, Non -KPP) VIIRS Land Surface Temperature : CrIS/ATMS-NUCAPS Temperature Profile . VIIRS Active Fires : VIIRS Ocean Color/Chlorophyll . OMPS Nadir Profile Ozone : VIIRS Aerosol Detection . VIIRS Polar Winds : OMPS Total .
VIIRS Bands I-1 & I-2 are 371 m at nadir VIIRS Band I-3 is 371 m at nadir VIIRS Bands I-4 & I-5 are 371 m at nadir MODIS VIIRS 6 1628 - 1652 MODIS VIIRS 31 10.780 - 11.280 20 3.660 - 3.840 Comparison of MODIS & VIIRS Bands Band # O O Band ID Band # O O Band ID 1 620 - 670 600 - 680 I-1 â M-12 2 841 - 876 845 - 885 I-2 â I-4
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