Following on the successful launch of Aura in July 2004, NASA will continue to add to the A-train with the spring 2006 launch of the CALIPSO and Cloudsat missions, followed by the fall 2008 launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO). The CALIPSO mission has three nadir-viewing instruments: a cloud-aerosol lidar for measuring aerosol and cloud height and properties, a 3-channel thermal infrared imaging radiometer, and a wide field cloud camera. The Cloudsat mission has a 94 GHz cloud profiling radar, returning cloud structure vs. height profiles. Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) is a mission focused on precision measurements of total column CO2 using reflected sunlight. These missions and how they relate to the other parts of the A-train will be presented. A brief report from a NASA workshop on future atmospheric science missions will also be presented.


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    Title :

    Future NASA Earth Science Missions


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    European Space Agency Atmospheric Science Conference ; 2006 ; Frascati, Italy


    Publication date :

    2006-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English




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