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Description of ACE-Asia Special Edition of the NRL/NAAPS Web Page |
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Description of ACE-Asia Special Edition of the NRL/NAAPS Web Page |
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A special ACE-Asia Edition of the NAAPS web page is being generated daily for use by the ACE-Asia Science Team and the AD-Net Lidar group.
The NAAPS Web Page philosophy is to collect analyses, imagery, and simulations at one site in order to facilitate investigations of aerosol phenomena around the world. As in the main page, some of these `products' are our own, others have been copied from other sites, and other are links to other sites.
This special ACE-Asia Edition has two additional purposes:
1. Daily imagery, which normally would age-off, will be archived in the directory for each day so that these are available long after the mission is over. Normally, the satellite imagery age off after a few days. Here we will save a few satellite images for each day. Our satellite imagery is just adequate. There probably are other sites which will carry higher-resolution or more frequent imagery during the experiment.
Also, the next NAAPS forecast usually writes over the previous one, and we thus loose the ability to evaluate the forecasts. However, for ACE-Asia, each forecast will be saved in its daily directory. This allows us to add loops which compare the 1-, 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-day NAAPS forecasts for the same verifying time.
2. Some special products are being created just for ACE-Asia and AD-Net. These are presented at the end of the special page, instead of on the main NAAPS web page. These include time-height sections of 5-day forecasts of dust and sulfate at some stations around East Asia. The sites were chosen to correspond to lidar locations, or special ACE-Asia locations. Other sites can be added. I have also linked to the lidar imagery whenever possible (please help us with relevant links) as well as the time-height section of the closest radiosonde station.
A new `Latest Edition' page is generated automatically every day between 1700 and 1800 UTC and is labeled with yyyymmdd00 (e.g. 2001021400). This means that the latest edition will appear to be a day old at dawn in the Far East. Indeed, much of the data are a day old, including SeaWiFS and TOMS, but the NAAPS forecast will extend four more day into the future.
Please read the warnings that appear on the pages.
The ACE-Asia Edition of the NAAPS web page may be found
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The complete NAAPS Web Page with explanations can be found here
An abbreviated NAAPS Web Page in the form of a single large table can be found here