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Title: IMPLICATIONS OF THE NRC DECADAL REVIEW FOR A SWATH ALTIMETRY MISSION


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IMPLICATIONS OF THE NRC DECADAL REVIEW FOR A
SWATH ALTIMETRY MISSION
  • Dennis P. Lettenmaier
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • University of Washington
  • for presentation at
  • Ocean Sciences Meeting
  • Orlando
  • March 5, 2008

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ESAS Charge
  • Recommend a prioritized list of flight missions
    and supporting activities to support national
    needs for research and monitoring of the dynamic
    Earth system during the next decade.
  • Identify important directions that should
    influence planning for the decade beyond.
  • Sponsors NASA SMD, NOAA NESDIS, USGS Geography

3
Executive Committee
  • Rick Anthes, UCAR, co-chair, atmospheric science
  • Berrien Moore, U. New Hampshire, co-chair,
    biogeochemical cycling
  • Jim Anderson, Harvard, atmospheric science,
    chemistry
  • Bruce Marcus, TRW (ret), remote sensing
  • Bill Gail, Ball Microsoft Virtual Earth, civil
    space and IT
  • Susan Cutter, U. South Carolina, hazards and risk
  • Tony Hollingsworth, ECMWF, weather forecasting
  • Kathie Kelly, U. Washington, physical
    oceanography/satellite obs
  • Neal Lane, Rice, policy
  • Warren Washington, NCAR, climate
  • Mary Lou Zoback, RMS, solid earth
  • Panel Chairs
  • Tony Janetos, PNL/U. Md., ecology and land remote
    sensing
  • Brad Hagar, MIT, solid earth
  • Ruth DeFries, U. Maryland, land cover change and
    remote sensing
  • Susan Avery, CIRES and CU, meteorology, space
    weather
  • Eric Barron, U. Texas, climate, paleoclimate
  • Dennis Lettenmaier, U. Washington, hydrology

4
CHALLENGES
  • Community Buy-in
  • First decadal survey
  • Breadth of interests
  • An organizational challenge was how to cover
    science/application themes as well as scientific
    disciplines. In retrospect, having additional
    discipline-focused subgroups would have been
    useful
  • Multi-Agency Issues
  • Transition to Operations
  • Sustained Research Operations
  • Important changes during the study at NASA and
    NOAA
  • Budgets
  • NPOESS
  • GOES

5
Water Panel top 7 missions
  1. Soil Moisture (SMAP)
  2. Surface water/coastal oceanography (SWOT)
  3. Cold land processes (SCLP)
  4. Groundwater/ocean mass (GRACE)
  5. Water vapor transport (WOWS/AIRS)
  6. Glacier mass balance/sea ice thickness
  7. Inland water quality

6
Two main criteria for ranking
  • a) Scientific benefit
  • b) Societal benefit
  • Weights were equal!

7
Scientific benefits from SWOT (science questions
the mission will allow to be addressed)
  • Hydrology
  • How much liquid water is stored on Earths land
    surfaces, and what are its dynamics?
  • How and to what extent do the hydrodynamics of
    inundated areas control the propagation of flood
    waves in major rivers, and what are their
    implications for regional and global carbon and
    other constituent fluxes?

8
Scientific benefits from SWOT (science questions
the mission will allow to be addressed)
  • Oceanography
  • What is the small-scale (1-100 km) variability of
    ocean surface topography that determines the
    velocity of ocean currents? How are fronts and
    eddies formed and evolving? How is oceanic
    kinetic energy dissipated?
  • What is the synoptic variability of coastal
    currents? How do the coastal currents interact
    with the open ocean variability? What are the
    effects of coastal currents on marine life,
    ecosystems, waste disposal, and transportation?

9
Societal benefits from SWOT (applications
questions)
  • Hydrology
  • How much water is stored in the worlds
    artificial reservoirs, what are its space-time
    dynamics, and what effect will freely available
    information about global reservoir storage have
    on water management, particularly in
    trans-boundary rivers?
  • How do the dynamics of seasonally and ephemerally
    inundated areas affect the propagation of disease
    vectors, such as malaria, and can knowledge of,
    and the capability to predict, such dynamics
    reduce the incidence of waterborne disease?

10
Societal benefits from SWOT (cont.)
  • Oceanography
  • Will facilitate societal needs by
  • Mapping ocean currents which are needed for
    shipping and pollutant transport
  • Analyzing the effects of ocean eddies on marine
    ecosystems and fisheries
  • Being used toward possible improvements in
    hurricane forecasts

11
SWOT Launch 2013-2016
GRACE-II Launch 2016-2020
Changes in aquifers and deep ocean currents
River discharge estimates
SCLP Launch 2016-2020
Snow pack accumulation and Snowmelt extent
Snow water equivalent, snow depth, and snow
wetness
GPSRO Launch 2010-2013
Pressure/ temperature/ water vapor profiles
PATH Launch 2016-2020
Dynamics of water storage in seasonal snow packs
Societal Challenge Freshwater Availability Improv
ed precipitation and drought forecasts to improve
water resource management
Temperature and humidity profiles
12
FINAL ESAS REPORT
  • Recommends a path forward that restores U.S.
    leadership in earth science and applications and
    averts the potential collapse of the system of
    environmental satellites
  • Presents an integrated suite of missions
  • Panel recommendations rolled-up
  • Missions sequenced
  • Overall cost matched to anticipated resources
    plus reasonable growth
  • Highest priorities of each panel were preserved
  • Some guidance on how to handle budget or
    technology development problems

13
OVERARCHINGESAS RECOMMENDATION
  • The U.S. government, working in concert with the
    private sector, academe, the public, and its
    international partners, should renew its
    investment in Earth observing systems and restore
    its leadership in Earth science and applications.

14
MAIN RECOMMENDATION(for next decade)
  • NOAA and NASA should undertake a set of 17
    recommended missions, phased over the next decade
  • NASA
  • 15 missions in small, medium and large categories
    (de facto prioritized by projected launch dates,
    SWOT is in 2nd group)

15
Decadal Survey Mission Mission Description Orbit Instruments Rough Cost Estimate
Timeframe 2010 2013, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2010 2013, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2010 2013, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2010 2013, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2010 2013, Missions listed by cost
CLARREO (NASA portion) Solar radiation spectrally resolved forcing and response of the climate system LEO, Precessing Absolute, spectrally-resolved interferometer 200 M
SMAP Soil moisture and freeze/thaw for weather and water cycle processes LEO, SSO L-band radar L-band radiometer 300 M
ICESat-II Ice sheet height changes for climate change diagnosis LEO, Non-SSO Laser altimeter 300 M
DESDynI Surface and ice sheet deformation for understanding natural hazards and climate vegetation structure for ecosystem health LEO, SSO L-band InSAR Laser altimeter 700 M
Timeframe 2013 2016, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2013 2016, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2013 2016, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2013 2016, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2013 2016, Missions listed by cost
HyspIRI Land surface composition for agriculture and mineral characterization vegetation types for ecosystem health LEO, SSO Hyperspectral spectrometer 300 M
ASCENDS Day/night, all-latitude, all-season CO2 column integrals for climate emissions LEO, SSO Multifrequency laser 400 M
SWOT Ocean, lake, and river water levels for ocean and inland water dynamics LEO, SSO Ka-band wide swath radar C-band radar 450 M
GEO-CAPE Atmospheric gas columns for air quality forecasts ocean color for coastal ecosystem health and climate emissions GEO High and low spatial resolution hyperspectral imagers 550 M
ACE Aerosol and cloud profiles for climate and water cycle ocean color for open ocean biogeochemistry LEO, SSO Backscatter lidar Multiangle polarimeter Doppler radar 800 M
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Timeframe 2016 -2020, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2016 -2020, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2016 -2020, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2016 -2020, Missions listed by cost Timeframe 2016 -2020, Missions listed by cost
LIST Land surface topography for landslide hazards and water runoff LEO, SSO Laser altimeter 300 M
PATH High frequency, all-weather temperature and humidity soundings for weather forecasting and SSTa GEO MW array spectrometer 450 M
GRACE-II High temporal resolution gravity fields for tracking large-scale water movement LEO, SSO Microwave or laser ranging system 450 M
SCLP Snow accumulation for fresh water availability LEO, SSO Ku and X-band radars K and Ka-band radiometers 500 M
GACM Ozone and related gases for intercontinental air quality and stratospheric ozone layer prediction LEO, SSO UV spectrometer IR spectrometer Microwave limb sounder 600 M
3D-Winds (Demo) Tropospheric winds for weather forecasting and pollution transport LEO, SSO Doppler lidar 650 M

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Current status and motivationpost-ESAS
  • SWOT is one of 7 Decadal Review missions for
    which preliminary planning money is allocated in
    the Administration 2008 budget.
  • From standpoint of oceanography, SWOT is the next
    logical step in a progression that constitutes
    almost 2 decades of heritage in altimetry.
  • From the standpoint of hydrology, SWOT will
    provide the first comprehensive measurements of
    the dynamics of surface water storage that will
    motivate new ways of looking at the land surface
    water cycle, and has a strong applications
    motivation as well.
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