GC079
Terra – 20 years as the Earth Observing System flagship observatory

Session ID#: 80333

Session Description:
The Terra platform celebrates 20years since the launch of its five instruments (ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS, and MOPITT) in December 1999.  The goal for Terra was to provide a broad range of products to provide answers to the overarching question, “How is the Earth changing and what are the consequences for life on Earth?”   Speakers will be invited to describe the impacts of data from Terra on our understanding of global atmospheric, land, and ocean processes including contributions to agriculture, air quality, climate, disaster management, ecological forecasting, public health, water resources, and weather.  The importance of Terra’s 20-year data record and for its continued operation will be emphasized.
Index Terms:

1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Primary Convener:  Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Marcus Dejmek, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada, Si-Chee Tsay, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert Edward Wolfe, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Regional trends in CO column variability using MOPITT (603685)
Debra Wunch1, Jacob Hedelius2, Geoffrey C Toon3, Laura T Iraci4, James Robert Podolske5, Coleen Marie Roehl2 and Paul Wennberg2, (1)University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Terra data fusion at scale for improved Earth science products and knowledge: from Terra Level 1 data fusion to observed decadal changes over the globe (611148)
Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and ACCESS to Terra Fusion Products Team
 
Constraints on the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere: Implications for top-down CO emission estimates (626783)
Dylan B. A. Jones1, Xuesong Zhang1, Zhe Jiang2, Adam E Bourassa3, D A Degenstein3, Yves J Rochon4 and Cathy Clerbaux5, (1)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (3)University of Saskatchewan, Department of Physics & Engineering Physics, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (4)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales,Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, CNRS, Paris, France
 
20 Years of Aerosols, and Fire Records from Space over the Indian Sub-Continent: Implications for Air Quality Trends (630825)
Falguni Patadia, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Pawan Gupta, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Lorraine Ann Remer, University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Greening of global lands from twenty-year satellite observation (503957)
Chi Chen1, Taejin Park2, Xuhui Wang3, Shilong Piao3, Baodong Xu4, Rajiv K. Chaturvedi5, Richard Fuchs6, Victor Brovkin7, Philippe Ciais8, Rasmus Fensholt9, Hans A Tømmervik10, Govindasamy Bala11, Zaichun Zhu12, Ramakrishna R Nemani13, Yuri Knyazikhin1 and Ranga B Myneni1, (1)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (3)Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Huazhong Agricultural University, Macro Agriculture Research Institute, College of Resource and Environment, Wuhan, China, (5)Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pilani, Goa, India, (6)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research—Atmospheric Environmental Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (7)MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (8)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (9)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (10)Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, FRAM – High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment, Tromsø, Norway, (11)Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Bangalore, India, (12)Peking University, Beijing, China, (13)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Twenty years of Terra: Development of the Dark Target aerosol algorithms and how they changed aerosol science. (507347)
Lorraine A Remer1, Shana Mattoo2, Robert C Levy2 and Didier D Tanre3, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Villeneuve, France
 
Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Global Terrestrial Gross Primary Production during 2000-2018: An Update on Vegetation Photosynthesis Model and it Simulations with Terra/MODIS images (511836)
Xiangming Xiao1, Russell Doughty2, Xiaocui Wu3, Yao Zhang4, Qing Chang5, Yuanwei Qin6, Jie Wang7 and Rajen Bajgain1, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Spatial Analysis, Norman, OK, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (4)Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, United States, (5)Oklahoma University, Norman, OK, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (7)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Spatial Analysis, Norman, OK, United States
 
Terra – 20 years of challenges and accomplishments (516354)
Kurtis J Thome, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Terra MODIS Instrument Status and Calibration Performance (518384)
Amit Angal1, Emily Aldoretta2, Tiejun Chang1, Daniel Link1, Michael Lucci3, Vince Salomonson4, Kevin Twedt1, Aisheng Wu1 and Xiaoxiong Xiong5, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications Inc., Lanham, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, (4)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Observations of Short- and Long-Term Temporal Variability, Data Product Improvements, and Some Unexpected Applications of MISR’s 20-Year Data Record (523937)
David J Diner1, Abigail Nastan2, Earl Hansen1 and The MISR Science Team, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Evaluation of Times Series of Terra/Aqua Observations Derived from MCD19 Product over Boreal Forest Ecosystems in North America (548577)
Feng Zhao, Science Systems and Applications Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, Alexei Lyapustin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Yujie Wang, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States
 
Twenty years of Terra MODIS geolocation trending and improvements (551529)
Guoqing Lin1,2, Robert Edward Wolfe2, Ping Zhang1,2, James C. Tilton2, John Dellomo2,3 and Bin Tan1,2, (1)SSAI, Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)GST, Lanham, MD, United States
 
Terra Trends: A Global Slowdown in Decreasing Atmospheric CO and the Regional Interpretation Using AOD (557192)
Rebecca R Buchholz1, Helen Marie Worden1, Mijeong Park1, Merritt N Deeter1, David P Edwards1, Gene Francis1, Benjamin Gaubert1, Sara Martinez-Alonso1, Wenfu Tang1, Mian Chin2 and Robert C Levy2, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
20 Years of MOPITT: Sources and Transport of Carbon Monoxide in the atmosphere (Invited) (579150)
James R Drummond, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada and EOS/Terra MOPITT Team
 
A 20-year Review of the Performance and Operation of the MOPITT Instrument (579512)
James R Drummond1, Zahra Vaziri Zanjani2, Jiansheng Zou3 and Florian Nichitiu3, (1)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (2)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Detected Global Agricultural Greening from Satellite Data (583804)
Xueyuan GAO, College Park, Maryland, United States, Shunlin Liang, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States and Bin He, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
 
Two Decades of MODIS Daily Albedo, NBAR, and BRDF products (586083)
Crystal Schaaf1, Zhuosen Wang2, Arthur Elmes1, Qingsong Sun3, Angela Erb1, Jia Tian1, Peter Boucher1, Zhan Li4, Feng Gao5, Xiaoyang Zhang6, Wolfgang Lucht7, Alan H Strahler8 and Shabnam Rouhani1, (1)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, Canada, (5)USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, MD, United States, (6)Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Brookings, SD, United States, (7)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (8)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
 
A paradigm shift in volcanological imaging: Two decades of thermal infrared data from Terra (588547)
Michael S Ramsey, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Geology and Environmental Science, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Matthew Watson, University of Bristol, Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Diego Coppola, Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Turin, Italy, Robert Wright, University of Hawaii HIGP, Honolulu, HI, United States and Rick L Wessels, US Geological Survey, Ashburn, VA, United States
 
Time Series Evaluation of the Current Collection of the MODIS Science Team Terra Cloud Products (597851)
Steven E Platnick1, Kerry Meyer1, Nandana Amarasinghe2, Galina Wind2, Steven A Ackerman3, Robert Holz4, Richard Frey5 and Michael D King6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (4)UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, (5)CIMSS/UW-Madison, Evansville, WI, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The impact of Terra CERES measurements to evaluate the Earth’s energy budget and regional diurnal cycles. (597950)
David R Doelling, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Moguo SUN, SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States and Forrest J Wrenn IV, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
 
20 years of MOPITT: What satellite observations of carbon monoxide can tell us about our changing atmosphere (Invited) (489604)
Helen Marie Worden, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and EOS/Terra MOPITT Team
 
Assessing the impacts of climate variability and lemming herbivory on the Utqiaġvik tundra ecosystem in Alaska with MODIS data (491779)
Qingyuan Zhang1, Elizabeth Middleton2 and Karl F Huemmrich2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Systematic underestimation of temporal trends in lower tropospheric CO over coastal cities from MOPITT Level 3 data (492457)
Ian Ashpole, Saint Mary's University, Environmental Science, Halifax, NS, Canada and Aldona Wiacek, Saint Mary's University, Environmental Science, Astronomy & Physics, Halifax, NS, Canada
 
Twenty Years of ASTER Contributions to Earth Science (491092)
Yasushi Yamaguchi, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan and Michael Abrams, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Twenty Years of Earth Observations from MODIS: What has been Accomplished? (492424)
Michael D King1, Christopher Owen Justice2, Steven W Running3, Steven E Platnick4 and Bryan A Franz4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG), Missoula, MT, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
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