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hello once again everyone this is the

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npp mission science briefing

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and here to discuss the missions goals

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and objectives of npp

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is jim gleason the npp project scientist

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from nasa's goddard space flight center

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and mitch goldberg the noaa joint polar

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satellite system program scientist for

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the noaa satellite and information

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service in silver spring maryland

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and we'll begin first with jim gleason

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our project scientist

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from goddard jim thank you george we're

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very excited to be here today talking to

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you about the upcoming npp launch the

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first mission designed to provide

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observations for both weather

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forecasters and climate researchers

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it's incredibly valuable to try to

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understand what the future environment

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may bring

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and the future environment is as much

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about tomorrow's weather as it is

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long-term climate change

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people often confuse weather and climate

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weather is what's going to happen

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tomorrow or this weekend

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we just had a great weather forecast for

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launch everyone's very very excited

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climate is what happens over years and

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decades so climate is long-term behavior

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weather patterns over time these weather

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patterns are what make it easier to grow

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corn in iowa than in arizona

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put simply

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climate is what you expect weather is

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what you get

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and the npp

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help scientists better predict the

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future

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incredibly valuable for economic

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so why is npp important to nasa

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npp is important to nasa because it

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continues

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the over 40 years of observations of the

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earth that nasa has been making and in

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particular continues the decade-long

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observations from the earth observation

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satellite systems terra aqua and aura

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and in the future these observations

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will be continued by the jpss satellites

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so npp's observations will produce at

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least 30 different data sets

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they'll contribute to understanding of

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all parts of the earth system

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they'll understand

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how temperature and water vapor are

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distributed in the atmosphere

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how clouds and aerosols affect

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npp's observations will help us

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understand the ozone layer and npp's

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observations will help us understand the

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biosphere

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focusing on vegetation on land and in

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the workhorse of npp is the viirs

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instrument producing over 20 data

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products covering land

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and the illustration shows the viirs

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instrument on the front of the npp

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you will now see a series of images

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illustrating just a few of the many

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viirs data products that will be

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the images you're seeing

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are from the modis instruments on the

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eos terra and aqua missions

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and as kenneth said because this data

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has proven to be so useful over the past

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decade the viirs instrument was designed

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to continue to provide these incredibly

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valuable data products and that's true

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for all the data products on the npp

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mission the earth observing satellite

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system has demonstrated their value and

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their utility

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which is why npp will continue to make

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it's ozone whole season

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and the ozone mapping and profiling

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which should be coming up on the video

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is is the instrument on the back

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npp spacecraft looking aft as it as a

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aft for the limb and then down

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um and it's the np the ozone ops

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hull next year this is a what you're

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seeing now is a series of images from

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this year's ozone hole mapped by the

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ome instrument on the eos aura space

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spacecraft so and in addition to

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the omps instrument will carry on the

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decades-long ozone record helping us

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understand the long-term behavior of the

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and basically helping us understand the

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effectiveness of the montreal protocol

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in controlling ozone-depleting

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substances like chlorofluorocarbons

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which are found in air conditioners

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so why is mpp important to you and your

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neighbors

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npp is important because it makes

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observations and observations help us

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make better models

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which then help us make a better

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prediction of what's going to happen if

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better prediction we can make a better

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decision and these decisions can be as

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simple as do i bring an umbrella or as

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complex as how to adapt to a changing

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so in short npp is better observations

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for better predictions to make better

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decisions thank you

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thank you

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all right now we will hear from mitch

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goldberg from noaa he is the joint polar

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satellite system program scientist from

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the noaa satellite and information

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mitch thank you george the launch of npp

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is critical for noaa and nasa for the

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united states and for the international

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mpp represents a bridge from current

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satellites to the future operational

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platforms known as the joint polar

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satellite system jpss and will provide

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essential and improved atmospheric

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oceanic and terrestrial observations for

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many different applications

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the internal community i mean the

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international community will also use

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npp data to benefit their users for

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example noaa has a very strong

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partnership with the european

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operational satellites and likewise we

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of essential observations enabling

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weather forecasts are based on advanced

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which are fed billions of observations

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observations is the polar satellite data

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that both both know nasa and noaa have

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worked for decades to improve and to

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community major advancements in the

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accuracy of weather forecasting has

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taken place in the last 30 years since

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polar satellites and mpp will ensure

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that these improvements will continue

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and that there will be no degradation of

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forecasts are used to make decisions in

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order to save lives medicaid property

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loss and make millions of day-to-day and

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longer-term decisions across all

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economic sectors affected by weather

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such as transportation agriculture

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separate weather events each inflicting

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including tornado outbreaks fires

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expect to improve our forecast skills

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out to five to seven days in advance of

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extreme weather events including

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temperature and water vapor information

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on the npp spacecraft to become the

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foundations of the global observing

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system that is absolutely essential for

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especially for extreme events such as

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beyond weather forecasting noaa will use

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npp data to track ash plumes from

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volcanic eruptions which of course is

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and fragile coastal ecosystems as well

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as human health for example there are

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warnings to the public on

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so in conclusion noaa is looking forward

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to a successful launch

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we are very excited about the prospects

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essential data for research to better to

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we are also looking forward to launch of

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by japan next spring noah will be using

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so it's a very exciting year not just

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thank you mitch and we're ready now to

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take questions once again please you

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give your name and affiliation when the

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the the combinations of the it's really

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a combination of the measurements on the

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eos aqua platform

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and some of the measurements on the aura

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platform the difference is

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that is essentially this is the time for

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the the generational leap forward in in

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operational weather forecasting

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observations the nasa satellites are

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they're done once maybe maybe twice for

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these very large platforms but in

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general we don't repeat them so what's

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happened is over the past decade

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the utility of these observations for

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weather forecasting and events has been

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proven

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and it was just about time for noah to

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rebuild its satellite fleet and and come

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up with the next generation and they

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could do that with confidence because

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all of the the

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observations and the

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well it would make make the improvement

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data from the airs instrument is done

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into the forecasts and now the

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forecasters will have the confidence

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that the air's

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quality data will continue because the

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chris instrument will fly now and in

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into the future so it's basically

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keeping people

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keeping meeting people's expectations

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because they've enjoyed the quality data

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additional questions janine

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janine scully santa maria times the long

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poke record can you talk about how

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critical it is to get npp up there

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in terms of what's the health status of

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the current orbiting

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noaa satellites which are getting pretty

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ancient

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19. that was launched in early 2009 it

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has a design life about three years so

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if you had three to 2009 it's 2012. so

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you know right now it's operating well

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but you know you know but if we're

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concerned about how long it will last so

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it's critical that we that we launch npp

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some friday morning

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so uh just to make sure that we have

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continuity of data sets that's critical

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further questions

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nora

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we heard in this press conference in the

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previous one uh about the the major

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weather year it's been with the billion

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dollars and ten events is there any way

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to quantify exactly what npp could have

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done to help prevent some of that if it

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had already been in in orbit

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um or if say next year we have a weather

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event uh weather year like this year

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weatherproof and mpp will provide

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additional information so it will

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forecasting of streaming events several

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days in advance

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2011 during those 10 events we actually

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predicted them pretty well and so

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so the npp the importance of npp is to

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maintain the accuracy of the forecast

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and also there are improvements in the

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measurements so we expect those

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improvements to

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janine

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considering the roller coaster this

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program has been on you guys seem pretty

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calm how excited are you to finally be

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this close to launch and seeing it get

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to space

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it's npp anything is possible

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it's a it's a really incredibly exciting

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time i mean i've been

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um wandering around just looking at the

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launch vehicle and the rocket going is

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really going to happen um when we had

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the mission dress rehearsal and we

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actually got to zero it was even though

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we knew it was rehearsal it was very

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exciting i mean it was like it was

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really going to happen so when i got a

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chance to see the launch vehicle up

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close it really does help make it real

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so you're looking at

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the boosters and the the uh

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the bottom of the rocket looking so we

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are very very excited they have a large

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team of folks here and a large team of

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folks at goddard and the science

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community is really looking forward to

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this so everyone's extremely excited

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yes indeed we're excited

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i'm excited i've been associated with

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this program in one way or the other

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since like the 1990s so it's been a long

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time we're very excited to

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see the future capabilities or the

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upcoming capabilities of the new npp

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satellite

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right we have some questions that are

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coming online so steve if you could give

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those to us

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okay two questions from mike wall at

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space.com the first one is how many

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different climate variables will npp

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monitor and which of these are most

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important to or equally sought by the

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scientific community

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npp will measure over 30 different

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climate variables

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the most important is

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depends on who you ask

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but what but what we like to say is the

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most important ones are the ones that

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have the longest data records

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so the ones so certainly the ones that

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carry on from from aqua and aura are

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important but in my particular

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discipline which is ozone we go back to

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uh nimbus seven which goes back to 1978

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1970. so when you're looking for climate

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signals the longer the data record it is

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the

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mission more valuable as a pathfinder

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for future jpss satellites or for the

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sort of the first answer

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we need to keep you know the the

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observations from npp are are needed for

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the forecasts today

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as well as

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being a another link in the chain of

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ongoing data observations so these are

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observations that have been shown to be

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extremely critical essential climate

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variables and that we have collectively

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decided that they need to be continued

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to monitor from space from npp jps s1

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and hopefully jpss 2 and beyond

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any other questions here in the room

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all right that will conclude this

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briefing and we have one more briefing

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to follow immediately that will be on

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our elana cubesats