MD-SOAR: Recent submissions
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Stratospheric Impacts of Continuing CFC-11 Emissions Simulated in a Chemistry-Climate Model
(AGU, 2021-04-09)Trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11, CFCl3) is a major anthropogenic ozone-depleting substance and greenhouse gas, and its production and consumption are controlled under the Montreal Protocol. However, recent studies show ... -
Impacts of the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo on Surface Temperatures and Precipitation Forecasts With the NASA GEOS Subseasonal-to-Seasonal System
(AGU, 2021-07-26)A contemporary seasonal forecasting system is used to study the impacts of a volcanic sulfate injection into the stratosphere on the seasonal forecasts for surface temperatures, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), ... -
Response of the Upper-Level Monsoon Anticyclones and Ozone to Abrupt CO₂ Changes
(AGU, 2021-10-05)The summer monsoon anticyclones are the dominant climatological features of the Northern Hemispheric (NH) summertime circulation in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). However, the response of these ... -
ESA’s JUICE End-to-End Orbit Determination Simulation to Calibrate On-Board Accelerometer
The purpose of this work is to determine an in-flight calibration procedure for JUICE’s on-board accelerometer. Its measurements will be combined with the range and range-rate observables by 3GM gravity experiment to ... -
Report on JUICE 3GM gravity experiment performance
(Copernicus, 2018)The ESA’s JUICE mission will provide a multidisciplinary investigation of Jupiter and its Galilean moons through a suite of eleven different experiments. JUICE will perform 2 Europa flybys, more than 10 Callisto flybys, ... -
Testing General Relativity in the Solar System: present and future perspectives
(IOP, 2020-04-07)The increasing precision of spacecraft radiometric tracking data experienced in the last number of years, coupled with the huge amount of data collected and the long baselines of the available datasets, has made the ... -
Design and performance of a Martian autonomous navigation system based on a smallsat constellation
(Elsevier, 2022-11-30)Deciphering the genesis and evolution of the Martian polar caps can provide crucial understanding of Mars’ climate system and will be a big step forward for comparative climatology of the terrestrial planets. The ... -
Gravity, Geodesy and Fundamental Physics with BepiColombo’s MORE Investigation
(Springer Nature, 2021-02-08)The Mercury Orbiter Radio Science Experiment (MORE) of the ESA mission BepiColombo will provide an accurate estimation of Mercury’s gravity field and rotational state, improved tests of general relativity, and a novel deep ... -
A Technique for the Analysis of Radio Occultation Data to Retrieve Atmospheric Properties and Associated Uncertainties
(Wiley, 2021-04-12)Among the techniques for atmospheric sounding, radio occultation enables an in depth investigation of vertical profiles from the ionosphere to the troposphere by measuring the radio frequency signal associated to the ... -
The Determination of the Rotational State and Interior Structure of Venus with VERITAS
(IOP, 2021-11-02)Understanding the processes that led Venus to its current state and will drive its future evolution is a major objective of the next generation of orbiters. In this work we analyze the retrieval of the spin vector, the ... -
TEMPO Green Paper: Chemistry, physics, and meteorology experiments with the Tropospheric Emissions: monitoring of pollution instrument
(SPIE, 2019-10-01)The NASA/Smithsonian Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO; tempo.si.edu) satellite instrument will measure atmospheric pollution and much more over Greater North America at high temporal resolution (hourly ... -
Intercomparison of NO₂, O₄, O₃ and HCHO slant column measurements by MAX-DOAS and zenith-sky UV–visible spectrometers during CINDI-2
(EGU, 2020-05-06)In September 2016, 36 spectrometers from 24 institutes measured a number of key atmospheric pollutants for a period of 17 d during the Second Cabauw Intercomparison campaign for Nitrogen Dioxide measuring Instruments ... -
New Era of Air Quality Monitoring from Space: Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS)
(AMS, 2020-01-01)The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) is scheduled for launch in February 2020 to monitor air quality (AQ) at an unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution from a geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) ... -
Underestimation of column NO₂ amounts from the OMI satellite compared to diurnally varying ground-based retrievals from multiple PANDORA spectrometer instruments
(EGU, 2019-10-23)Retrievals of total column NO₂ (TCNO₂) are compared for 14 sites from the Ozone Measuring Instrument (OMI using OMNO₂-NASA v3.1) on the AURA satellite and from multiple ground-based PANDORA spectrometer instruments making ... -
Comparison of Near-Surface NO₂ Pollution With Pandora Total Column NO₂ During the Korea-United States Ocean Color (KORUS OC) Campaign
(AGU, 2019-11-12)Near‐surface air quality (AQ) observations over coastal waters are scarce, a situation that limitsour capacity to monitor pollution events at land‐water interfaces. Satellite measurements of total column(TC) nitrogen dioxide ... -
Atmospheric Trace Gas (NO₂ and O₃) Variability in South Korean Coastal Waters, and Implications for Remote Sensing of Coastal Ocean Color Dynamics
(MDPI, 2018-10-03)Coastal environments are highly dynamic, and are characterized by short-term, local-scale variability in atmospheric and oceanic processes. Yet, high-frequency measurements of atmospheric composition, and particularly ... -
Nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde measurements from the GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator over Houston, Texas
(EGU, 2018-10-30)The GEOstationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Airborne Simulator (GCAS) was developed in support of NASA's decadal survey GEO-CAPE geostationary satellite mission. GCAS is an airborne push-broom remote-sensing ... -
Earth Observations from DSCOVR EPIC Instrument
(AMS, 2018-09-01)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft was launched on 11 February 2015 and in June 2015 achieved its orbit at the first Lagrange point (L1), 1.5 million ... -
Langley Calibration Analysis of Solar Spectroradiometric Measurements: Spectral Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrievals
(AGU, 2018-04-06)Aerosol optical thickness (τaer) is a fundamental parameter for analyzing aerosol loading and associated radiative effects. The τaer can constrain many inversion algorithms using passive/active sensor measurements to ... -
Using Deep Space Climate Observatory Measurements to Study the Earth as an Exoplanet
(IOP, 2018-06-27)Even though it was not designed as an exoplanetary research mission, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has been opportunistically used for a novel experiment in which Earth serves as a proxy exoplanet. More than ...