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“No Country is Immune from the Effects of Increased Greenhouse Gases”
M. T. Chahine
The JPL Green Club
Von Karman Auditorium
October 24, 2009
Credit: Edward T. Olsen, Luke Chen, Thomas S Pagano (JPL),
Xun Jiang (U. Houston) and Yuk L. Yung (Caltech Campus)
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“No Country is Immune from the Effects of Increased Greenhouse Gases”
July 2003
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Net Anthropogenic Forcing is Positive
The Total net anthrpogenic effect is more than doubled by the feedback from water vapor. Water vapor is the most potent greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere
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AIRS Greenhouse Gases
Other AIRS Atmospheric Climate Products
H2O CH4 CO2
Temperature Clouds CO O3
7 Years of AIRS Mid- Tropospheric Climate Data
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on the NASA Aqua Mission (9/2002-Present)
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Spacecraft Remote Sensing Continues Historic CO2
Monitoring
Mauna Loa CO2 from 1958 to 2000:(CO2) 380ppm - 310ppm = 70ppm
Mean = 1.7 ppm/yr. Recent = 2 ppm/yr
Larrabee Strow [U. Maryland]
Charles Keeling
Mauna Loa ObservatoryAIRS on AQUA spacecraftSince May 2002
Comparison with AIRS data are Global: 30º lat.
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Growth in CO2 visible in AIRS Data7 Years Available to Public in Dec ‘09
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2009
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Chahine, M. T., L. Chen, P. Dimotakis, X. Jiang, Q. Li, E. T. Olsen, T. Pagano, J. Randerson, and Y. L. Yung (2008), Satellite remote sounding of mid-tropospheric CO2, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L17807, doi:10.1029/2008GL035022.
280 ppm
July
July
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The Breathing Earth
MODIS
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8VERSION V1.5x
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Monthly Average AIRS Mid-Trop CO2
May and July – 2003 through 2009
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Public Webpagehttp://AIRS.JPL.NASA.GOV
20080319Dimotakis GC&E update http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
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Von Karman Auditorium
October 24, 2009
7 Years of AIRS Mid-Tropospheric CO2
Backup
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TES – T, P, H2O, O3, CH4, COMLS – O3, H2O, COOMI – O3
Aerosol polarization
3-D Aerosols
AIRS – T, P, H2O, CO2, CH4
MODIS – clouds, aerosols, albedo
CO2 ps, clouds, aerosols
AIRS and OCO Were to Fly for
Coordinated Observations
3-D CloudsAerosol polarization
NASA A-Train
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Scott Denning (CSU)
