Arctic Field Projects
Project Title: Arctic Satellite Composite Project (Award# 0713843)
PI: Lazzara, Matthew A (mattl@ssec.wisc.edu)
Phone: (608) 262.0436
Institute/Department: U of Wisconsin, Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center
IPY Project? YES
Funding Agency: US\Federal\NSF\OD\OPP\ARC\ANS
Program Manager: Dr. William Wiseman (wwiseman@nsf.gov)
Discipline(s): | Meteorology and Climate |
| Project Web Site(s): |
| Data: http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/arctic/ |
| Data: http://arctic.ssec.wisc.edu/ |
| IPY: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?... |
| Data: http://nsidc.org/ |
| NSF_Award_Info: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0713... |
| Data: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ |
Science Summary:
Funds are provided for the generation of weather satellite composites over the Arctic, centered on the North Pole, and extending into the northern mid-latitudes. Similar composites have been made for the Antarctic at the University of Wisconsin for the last fourteen years. This project aims to build on the success of the Antarctic efforts and apply lessons learned toward the Arctic. This effort will initiate the first continuous and consistent record of the state of the Arctic, multiple times per day, as captured by weather satellites. The principal investigators propose to use the collection of composites in support of long-term observations of the Arctic, as well as distribute these data sets to a broad segment of the arctic research, educational and logistics communities.
Logistics Summary:
This project will create a single composite from multiple weather sateliite imagery over the Arctic and Northern Hemisphere. This project enables advances in the frontiers of Arctic meteorology. The composites will provide a new and unique view of clouds, boreal smoke plumes, etc. over the Arctic. The increased understanding of Arctic processes from this new perspective can lead to improved numerical weather prediction and forecasts as well as continuing the effort to better understand the Arctic climate and how it relates to the rest of the globe. Composites will be five-kilometer nominal resolution and will include observations from both polar and geostationary satellites. Data will be accessible through various programs, including to the educational community via the NSF funded Unidata project’s Internet Data Distribution (IDD) system using its Local Data Manager (LDM) software and via Unidata’s THREDDS project. All composites will also be captured and archived off-line. All metadata will be filed with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the Global Change Master Directory. No fieldwork is proposed.
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