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Introduction Spectral Rates All-Sky Retrievals Anomaly Retrievals

12-Year Trends Derived from Radiances:Intercomparisons to AIRS L3 and ERA

Reanalysis

L. Larrabee Strow, Sergio De Souza-Machado, and StevenBuczkowski

UMBCDepartment of Physics and

Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology

October 13, 2015

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Overview

AIRS mission length entering climate scalesAIRS stability: ∼ 0.002 K/year (using CO2 and SST astruth)Clear path to connect CrIS to AIRS radiometricallyWe believe we can convert AIRS radiance to CrIS ILS,building an homogeneous radiance recordCrIS very stable: at least 0.01K/year for first three years

How Can We Impact Climate Community?

Products need error traceability!Products need to be reproducible (by others)Community needs to be trained on utility of theseproducts.

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Path to Achieve Goal of Climate Level Products

Decrease data volume: Random subsetAverage data (L1b gridding and binning)This leads to constant reprocessing by anyone!Adopt OEM framework with scattering RTADecrease sensitivity to unknown variables by producingL3 trends and anomalies from time derivatives of L1cradiances.This is not a replacement for 3x3 or single-FOVretrievals.

This Work: A First Look

No radiance binning, average it all.Examine error characteristicsExamine ability to do anomaly retrievalsIt takes a few minutes or so to create L3 trend andanomaly retrievals for the whole mission!

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Data Set

AIRS V7 random data (implemented by UMBC)∼ 1-2% of data, using only 3x3 FORs next to nadirZonal averages (for now): 40 equal area latitude binsEach channel time series fit for offset, linear rate, and 4sinusoidal terms (yearly and fractional harmonics).Matched to ERA for each scene (FOV)No L1c or frequency corrections!

Data Set Sizes

Days Latitudes Channels4480 40 2378

Variables

B(T) ObservedB(T) ERA ClearB(T) ERA All-Sky

Anomalies generally quite Gaussian except for poles.

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B(T) Time Series: Arctic Latitudes

2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

B(T

) of 795 c

m-1

(K

)

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265

270

275

Biggest change of all latitudes, generally warmer winters (if cloud forcingis constant).

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Rates vs Latitude

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ B

(T)

in K

/year

-0.06

-0.04

-0.02

0

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0.08

0.1

-200 -150 -100 -50 0 50 100 150 200-100

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-20

0

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100

Hash near 900 cm−1 is M8 A-only versus B-only drifts.

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Rates vs Latitude

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ B

(T)

in K

/year

-0.1

-0.08

-0.06

-0.04

-0.02

0

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0.06

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-20

0

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Note: cold trend in window region.

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Rates vs Latitude

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ B

(T)

in K

/year

-0.08

-0.06

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0

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3 latitude bins combined, now more land.

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Rates vs Latitude

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ B

(T)

in K

/year

-0.08

-0.06

-0.04

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0

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0.04

0.06

-200 -150 -100 -50 0 50 100 150 200-100

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Northern temperature latitudes.

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Rates vs Latitude

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ B

(T)

in K

/year

-0.06

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0

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Possible cooing in higher NH latitude, or increased clouds.

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Rates vs Latitude

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ B

(T)

in K

/year

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0

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0.1

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0.2

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100

Large increase in Arctic, warmer winters? Shown in earliertime series.

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Global Mean Rate

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ B

(T)

in K

/year

-0.08

-0.06

-0.04

-0.02

0

0.02

0.04

0.06

CO2, N2O and CH4 increases dominant.0.01K/year in window region, 2-σ error at limit of detectionMaybe slightly less water.Hash past 1400 cm−1 is due to lack of frequency calibration

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Global Mean B(T) Obs

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

B(T

) in

K

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AIRSERA: SARTA_cloudyERA SARTA_clear

Clear dominates, but still quite good agreement!

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Global Mean B(T) Obs

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

Ob

s -

Ca

l

-2.5

-2

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-1

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2

Clear dominates, but still quite good agreement!

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Global Mean Rate: ERA Simulation

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ B

(T)

in K

/year

-0.16

-0.14

-0.12

-0.1

-0.08

-0.06

-0.04

-0.02

0

0.02

0.04

AIRSERA

ERA mis-match with AIRS in time, and the lack of accurate surfacetemperatures make models unsuitable for climate trending of spectralOLR. However, a direct trend on the model surface temperature is quitegood (see later slide), so this result is a bit curious.

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B(T) Rates by Hemisphere

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ B

(T)

in K

-0.08

-0.06

-0.04

-0.02

0

0.02

0.04

SHNHStd NHStd SH

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B(T) Rates by Hemisphere

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400

∆ B

(T)

in K

-0.04

-0.03

-0.02

-0.01

0

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SHNHStd NHStd SH

Very similar, although land masses very different!

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ERA Surface Temperature versus 1231 cm−1 B(T) Rate

Latitude-80 -60 -40 -20 0 20 40 60 80

dB

T/d

t in

K/y

ea

r

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-0.1

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ERA Surface T1231 cm-1 B(T)

Very good agreement?ERA land surface T inaccurate, but time dependence isn’t bad?However, 1231 cm−1 B(T) rate includes possible variations in waterand cloud amount

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Ocean Only: Approach for Cloud Forcing?

Wavenumber (cm-1)

800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 2600

∆ F

orc

ing in K

-0.15

-0.1

-0.05

0

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0.1

ERA for clear scenes is very good, esp. for window regionsB(T) clear calculation minus B(T) observed = cloud forcingB(T) clear from ERA also has no minor gas forcingsResults suggest a slight decrease in cloud forcing, but sosmall also could be inaccurate SST used by ERA

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All-Sky Rate Retrievals

Single Jacobian per latitude bin from kCARTAFor now: average all scenes in latitude bins. Future: 2Dbinning, and, bin observations by cloud forcing.Binning by cloud forcing will allow improved Jacobians inOEM retrievals.Jacobians from mean ERA fields (all-sky, with conversion of67 layer clouds to 2 layer slabs). Can be improved withretrievals on mean B(T) in future.Linear retrieval, no iteration. (Slight lien for anomaliesduring ENSO.)100 layers retrieved. Helpful for diagnostics.Retrieval constrained mostly by Tikhonov L1 regularization,not covariance estimates.Here we retrieve minor gas rates, but think it best to fixthem in the future.

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Temperature vs ERA-Interim, MERRA, AIRS L3

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Water vs ERA-Interim, MERRA, AIRS L3

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Water vs ERA-Interim, MERRA, AIRS L3: Improved

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UncertaintiesTemperature Water

These include inter-annual variability and a 0.002 K/year estimateduncertainty in AIRS radiometric stability.

Nominal values from previous slides:

Temperature: Up to ±0.15KWater: Up to ± 0.03 fractional change

With more years, AIRS stability error will dominate over geophysicalvariability.

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Anomaly Retrievals

Climate community mostly interested in trends (and)AnomaliesWe create the smoothed anomalies in radiance space(and)Then perform OEM conversion to geophysical variables.Single jacobians still used, and a linear retrievalAnomalies very large compared to rates. Linear retrievalappears to be OK except during strong ENSO events.

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-3S to 0S Latitude Anomaly RetrievalsUMBC ERA

2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

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ssure

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bar)

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UMBC probably over-damped.UMBC smoothing followinglayers, should vary in strat vstrop

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-72S to -64S Latitude Anomaly RetrievalsUMBC ERA

2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

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-33S to -30S Latitude Anomaly RetrievalsUMBC ERA

2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

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12N to 14N Latitude Anomaly RetrievalsUMBC ERA

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27N to 30N Latitude Anomaly RetrievalsUMBC ERA

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44N to 48N Latitude Anomaly RetrievalsUMBC ERA

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-3S to 0S Latitude Water Anomaly RetrievalsUMBC ERA

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-33S to -30S Latitude Water Anomaly RetrievalsUMBC ERA

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Conclusions

Demonstrated

Ability to generate full-mission L3 trends and anomalies in afew minutesFirst shot at L3 errors based on AIRS stability and geophysicalvariability. Insertion of AIRS stability uncertainty will becomemore important for retrievals over time!Good performance for trends and anomalies versus ERA

Future?

Can future ROSES call entertain new retrieval approaches!Produce AIRS L1c at DAAC ASAP!!Modify our approach to bin radiances by cloud amount. Willimprove Jacobians and permit more accurate retrievals.

I would like to thank Dan Zhou (NASA Langley) for his emissivityclimatology, which was used here for the ERA simulations.