Satellite Data Assimilation into Meteorological/Air Quality Models

摘要

The work presented in this report is directed at improving the specification of surface parameters such as insolation, soil moisture and surface heat capacity that control the developing land boundary layer through use of satellite data. The tools and techniques using the satellite data are tested in the context of the type boundary layer models used in air quality models. In particular, the techniques using satellite data for determining soil moisture availability (McNider et al., 1994), surface heat capacity (McNider et al., 2005), insolation (McNider et al., 1995) and photolysis fields (Pour-Biazar et al., 2007) are examined in the context of recent national level air quality studies undertaken along the Texas Gulf Coast (TexAQS2000).