{"id":1530,"date":"2023-04-06T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacepreneurmag.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2023-04-06T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:56:20","slug":"first-global-image-from-noaa-21s-cris-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/06\/first-global-image-from-noaa-21s-cris-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"First Global Image from NOAA-21\u2019s CrIS Instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three months after the NOAA-21 satellite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news-release\/noaas-newest-satellite-heads-toward-orbit\">launched<\/a>&nbsp;from Vandenberg Space Force Base, an instrument onboard that provides valuable weather forecasting measurements to global weather models sent back its first science data.&nbsp;The data from the&nbsp;new Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS)&nbsp;instrument will continue the critical infrared soundings that play an important role in numerical weather prediction. The first light image in brightness temperature was captured by the NOAA-21 CrIS sensor at the 1596 cm-1 water vapor channel on February 12, 2023. This image shows the large-scale waves of upper tropospheric water vapor and clouds over the Earth\u2019s globe. Image generated using NOAA-21 Preliminary, Non-Operational Data.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infrared map above shows water vapor in the troposphere, the lower part of the atmosphere where we live and where weather happens. The red on the map likely indicates areas of drier air, where you\u2019re seeing deeper into the atmosphere, said David Johnson,&nbsp; NOAA\u2019s Joint Polar Satellite System\u2019s (JPSS) CrIS instrument scientist.<br><br>\u201cThere\u2019s that red area that\u2019s over Hispaniola that\u2019s about 275 degrees Kelvin and you go north of that off the mid-Atlantic coast and it\u2019s about 240 degrees Kelvin, so that\u2019s higher up in the atmosphere,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThat\u2019s a region where there must be more water vapor in the atmosphere, since we cannot see through it to warmer air below.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>The&nbsp;CrIS sensor provides hyperspectral infrared observations from more than 2,211 channels with high radiometric and spectral accuracy. CrIS measures atmospheric temperature, surface temperature, and several trace gases in the atmosphere, including Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Ozone (O3), Methane (CH4), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2), Carbon Monoxide (CO), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O).&nbsp;<br>The CrIS sensor measures infrared spectra in three spectral bands: the long-wave IR (LWIR) band from 650 to 1095 cm-1, mid-wave IR (MWIR) band from 1210 to 1750 cm-1&nbsp;and short-wave IR (SWIR) band from 2155 to 2550 cm-1.&nbsp;<br><br>When combined with measurements from the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), these two instruments provide high quality measurements of atmospheric temperature and water vapor, which allow forecasters to predict extreme weather events like thunderstorms and atmospheric rivers, along with daily weather.<br><br>\u201cCrIS takes detailed profiles of temperature and water vapor that forecasters use to measure atmospheric instability,\u201d said NOAA\u2019s JPSS Program Scientist, Dr. Satya Kalluri.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>These first global images are part of a series of events that includes instrument activation, intensive calibration and validation activities that occur before the satellite is declared fully operational.&nbsp; Together, NOAA and NASA oversee the development, launch, testing, and operation of all the satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite System program. NOAA funds and manages the program, operations, and data products. On behalf of NOAA, NASA and commercial partners develop and build the instruments, spacecraft, and ground system, and launch the satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months after the NOAA-21 satellite&nbsp;launched&nbsp;from Vandenberg Space Force Base, an instrument onboard that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacepreneurmag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}