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CGMS-42 JAXA-WP-01 22 May 2014 CGMS-42 JAXA-WP-01 22 May 2014 Prepared by JAXA Agenda Item: D.2 Discussed in Plenary JAXA REPORT ON THE STATUS OF CURRENT AND FUTURE SATELLITE SYSTEMS GPM/DPR was successfully launched from Tanegashima Space Center on Feb. 27, and Initial calibration and check out of the DPR is ongoing. TRMM/PR is still working well. 15th anniversary symposium was held in Tokyo in November, 2012. JAXA currently operates GOSAT, Ibuki and GCOM-W1, Shizuku. The GOSAT data products are distributed through the GOSAT User Interface Gateway (GUIG), a website for GOSAT data distribution. The AMSR2 products are available at the GCOM-W1 Data Providing Service website. The developments of ALOS-2, EarthCARE/CPR and GCOM-C are under way. ALOS-2 will be launched in May 2014. While EarthCARE and GCOM-C will be launched in JFY2016. GOSAT-2 project was officially initiated in this April as a GOSAT, Ibuki follow-on. The target launch date is in JFY2017. The specifications of current and planned data products are described in this Working Paper. CGMS-42 JAXA-WP-01 22 May 2014 JAXA Report on the status of current and future satellite systems 1. Status of Current R&D Satellite Systems Satellites Space Equator Launch Access Instruments Status, Agency Crossing date to data or applications and Time products other information + (Links) Altitude TRMM NASA/ non-sun- 28/11/1997 NASA - PR Measures tropical JAXA synchronous PMM data (Precipitation rainfall/precipitation (35° incl) access Radar) and radiation 402 km page - TMI (TRMM energy MW Imager) Precipitation Radar JAXA - CERES (PR) provided by G-Portal l - VIRS JAXA - LIS Satellite bus and (Lightning other instruments Imaging provided by NASA Sensor) CERES no longer functional GOSAT JAXA & 13:00 (D) 23/01/2009 TANSO-FTS, Greenhouse Gases (IBUKI) Japan's 666km TANSO-CAI Observing Satellite Ministry of monitoring the Environment distribution of the density of carbon dioxide GCOM-W1 JAXA 13:30 (A) 18/05/2012 DPSS AMSR-2 Global water and (SHIZUKU) 700 km energy circulation. Joining the A-train. GPM Core NASA/JAXA non-sun- 2/27/2014 NASA - DPR (Dual- Measures glob al Observatory synchronous PMM data frequency rainfall/precipitation (65° incl) access Precipitation DPR provided by 407 km page Radar) JAXA - GMI (GPM Satellite bus and JAXA MW Imager) GMI provided by G-Portal NASA Page 3 of 21 CGMS-42 JAXA-WP-01 22 May 2014 1.1 GOSAT (Ibuki) The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite "IBUKI" (GOSAT) is the world's first spacecraft specialized to measure the concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane, the two major greenhouse gases, from space. The spacecraft was launched successfully on January 23, 2009, and has been operating properly since then. GOSAT observes infrared light reflected and emitted from the earth's surface and the atmosphere. Column abundances of CO 2 and CH 4 are retrieved from the observed spectra. The mixing ratio of the target gas species is expressed as column-averaged dry air mole fraction above an observed unit surface area of 10.5 km. GOSAT flies at an altitude of approximately 666 km and completes one revolution in about 100 minutes. The satellite returns to the same point in space in three days. The observation instrument on-board the satellite is the Thermal and Near-infrared Sensor for carbon Observation (TANSO). TANSO is composed of two subunits: the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) and the Cloud and Aerosol Imager (CAI). Specifications of FTS Specifications of CAI All types of the GOSAT data products are provided for general users. Data users can search and order the Level 1 data (FTS Level 1B, CAI Level 1B, and CAI Level 1B+ data) and the higher level data products (FTS Level 2, CAI Level 2, FTS Level 3, CAI Page 4 of 21 CGMS-42 JAXA-WP-01 22 May 2014 Level 3, Level 4A, and Level 4B data products). The Level 1 data and the Level 2 data products whose uncertainties have been evaluated in the instrument calibration and data validation activities are open to the general users. Carbon dioxide flux estimates based on the observational data by GOSAT are released to general users as the Level 4 data products. The GOSAT data products are distributed through the GOSAT User Interface Gateway (GUIG*), a website for GOSAT data distribution. Prior user registration is required for accessing the data products and can be done on "user authentication" page reached from "product & service" page on GUIG. GUIG*: https://data.gosat.nies.go.jp/GosatUserInterfaceGateway/guig/GuigPage/open.do;jsession id=0F6497855D3B130F97D71E3D2BEC9323?lang=en GOSAT Data Products In addition to the GOSAT data products, global distributions of total and tropospheric ozone can be retrieved from FTS TIR band [Ohyama et al., 2012]. Global and seasonal distributions of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence are measured from space by using FTS O 2 band [Joiner et al., 2011, Frankenberg et al., 2011, Guanter et al., 2012]. References http://www.gosat.nies.go.jp/index_e.html http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gosat/index_e.html http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/GOSAT/index_j.html Page 5 of 21 CGMS-42 JAXA-WP-01 22 May 2014 Ohyama, H., S. Kawakami, K. Shiomi, and K. Miyagawa, Retrievals of total and tropospheric ozone from GOSAT thermal infrared spectral radiances, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 50, issue 5, pp. 1770-1784, 2012. Joiner, J., Y. Yoshida, A. P. Vasilkov, Y. Yoshida, L. A. Corp, and E. M. Middleton, First observations of global and seasonal terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence from space, Biogeosciences, vol. 8, pp. 637-651, doi: 10.5194/bg-8-637-2011, 2011. Frankenberg, C., J. Fisher, J. Worden, G. Badgley, S. Saatchi, J.-E. Lee, G. Toon, A. Butz, M. Jung, A. Kuze, and T. Yokota, New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 38, L17706, doi: 10.1029/2011GL048738, 2011. Guanter, L., C. Frankenberg, A. Dudhia, P. E. Lewis, J. Gomez-Dans, A. Kuze, H. Suto, and R. G. Grainger, Retrieval and global assessment of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence from GOSAT space measurements, Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 121, pp. 236–251, 2012. Page 6 of 21 CGMS-42 JAXA-WP-01 22 May 2014 1.2 GCOM-W1 (Shizuku) The Global Change Observation Mission 1st - Water "SHIZUKU" (GCOM-W1) mission aims to establish the global and long-term observation system to collect data, which is needed to understand mechanisms of climate and water cycle variations, and demonstrate its utilization. Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) on-board the GCOM-W1 satellite has taken over Aqua/AMSR-E observations of water vapor, cloud liquid water, precipitation, SST, sea surface wind speed, sea ice concentration, snow depth, and soil moisture. GCOM-W1 was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center at 1:39 am on May 18, 2012 (Japan Standard Time) and entered into the A-train orbit on June 29. The A-Train satellite constellation cross the equator within a few minutes of one another at around 1:30 pm local time, and GCOM-W1 is flying in front of the Aqua satellite, thus it takes the most front position in the A-Train until another NASA satellite, OCO- 2 joins the constellation. GCOM-W1 has started the initial observations since July 3, after increasing the antenna rotation of the on-board AMSR2 to 40 rpm, then has moved to the regular observation operation on August 10 as scheduled after completion of the initial functional verification AMSR2 on-board the GCOM-W1 satellite is a remote sensing instrument for measuring weak microwave emission from the surface and the atmosphere of the Earth. From about 700 km above the Earth, AMSR2 has provided us highly accurate measurements of the intensity of microwave emission and scattering since July, 2012. The antenna of AMSR2 rotates once per 1.5 seconds and obtains data over a 1450 km swath. This conical scan mechanism enables AMSR2 to acquire a set of daytime and night-time data with more than 99% coverage of the Earth every 2 days. The AMSR2 products are available at the GCOM-W1 Data Providing Service website (https://gcom-w1.jaxa.jp/auth.html ). Page 7 of 21 CGMS-42 JAXA-WP-01 22 May 2014 Frequency Channels and Resolutions of AMSR2 (Orbit altitude of 700 km and main-reflector size of 2.0m are assumed) Beam width Center Band [deg.] Sampling frequency width Polarization (Ground interval [GHz] [MHz] resolution [km] [km]) 1.8 6.925 / 7.3 350 (35 x 62) 1.2 10.65 100 (24 x 42) 0.65 18.7 200 10 (14 x 22) V and H 0.75 23.8 400 (15 x 26) 0.35 36.5 1000 (7 x 12) 0.15 89.0 3000 5 (3 x 5) GCOM-W1 Standard Products Product Range Comments Brightness temperatures Brightness temperatures 2.7-340K Global, 6 frequency with dual polarizations Geophysical parameters Integrated water vapour 0 - 70kg/m 2 Over global ocean *, columnar integrated value Integrated cloud liquid water 0 - 1.0kg/m 2 Over global ocean *, columnar integrated value Global (except over ice and snow), surface Precipitation 0 - 20mm/h rain rate Sea surface temperature -2 - 35 ℃ Global ocean * Sea surface wind speed 0 - 30m/s Global ocean * Sea ice concentration 0 - 100% High latitude ocean areas Snow depth 0 - 100cm Land surface (except dense forest regions) Land surface (except ice sheet and dense Soil moisture 0 - 40% forest regions) * Except sea ice and precipitating areas References http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gcom/index_e.html http://suzaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/GCOM/index.html Page 8 of 21 CGMS-42 JAXA-WP-01 22 May 2014 1.3 GPM and DPR The Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) is a satellite program to measure the global distribution of precipitation accurately in a sufficient frequency so that the information provided by this program can GMI drastically improve weather predictions, climate modelling, and understanding of water cycles.
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