Dr. W. Wallace McMillan
Associate Professor

Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology
Department of Physics
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Department of Physics
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, Maryland 21250-0001		 office:
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E-mail:		 (410) 455-6315
(410) 455-1929
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mcmillan@umbc.edu

UMBC TEXAQS/GoMACCS Project Page

We are participating (August-September 2006) in the 2006 Texas Air Quality Study (TEXAQS 2006)/Gulf of Mexico Atmospheric Composition and Climate Study (GoMACCS) with the support of NASA's Tropospheric Chemsitry and Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Programs. During TEXAQS/GoMACCS we will provide daily maps of tropospheric carbon monoxide and upper tropospheric ozone retrieved from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) in orbit onboard NASA's Aqua satellite. These maps are provided to support NOAA and NASA flight planning and subsequent data analysis and interpretation after the field experiment. As a member of the AIRS Science Team, Dr. McMillan is responsibile for development of AIRS CO retrievals into a standard product. This research is in collaboration with Dr. Larrabee Strow, Dr. Juying Warner, Michele McCourt (UMBC), and Dr. Chris Barnet (NOAA/NESDIS).
UMBC INTEX-B Project Page

Maps for most days between 2/19/06 and 5/17/06 are available as well as 1x1 degree binned data and full AIRS retrievals in NetCDF format.

In the Spring of 2006 we participated in NASA's INTEX-B experiment by providing maps of tropospheric carbon monoxide retrieved from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) in orbit onboard NASA's Aqua satellite. As a member of the AIRS Science Team, Dr. McMillan is responsibile for development of AIRS CO retrievals into a standard product. This research is in collaboration with Dr. Larrabee Strow, Dr. Juying Warner, Michele McCourt (UMBC), and Dr. Chris Barnet (NOAA/NESDIS).
UMBC INTEX-A Project Page

Maps for reprocessed data from 7/4-8/15/04 are available as well as 1x1 degree binned data and full AIRS global CO data in NetCDF format.

In the Summer of 2004 we participated in NASA's INTEX-A experiment by providing maps of tropospheric carbon monoxide retrieved from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) in orbit onboard NASA's Aqua satellite. As a member of the AIRS Science Team, Dr. McMillan is responsibile for development of AIRS CO retrievals into a standard product. This research is in collaboration with Dr. Larrabee Strow, Dr. Juying Warner, Michele McCourt (UMBC), and Dr. Chris Barnet (NOAA/NESDIS).
During the summers of 2002 and 2003 we deployed a suite of instruments including BBAERI (The Baltimore Bomem Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer), the UMBC ELF (Elastic Lidar Facility) and Vaisala GPS RS-90 Radiosondes to the USCG Chesapeake Lighthouse for validation of the AIRS (Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder) flying onboard NASA's Aqua satellite.

ABOVE Project Page
Daily MOPITT CO Validation
We are providing daily quicklook CO retrievals from the five AERI's located at the DOE ARM sites in the Southern Great Plains (SGP) as part of our effort for validating CO measurements from the NASA/CSA MOPITT instrument onboard NASA's Terra Earth Observing Satellite (part of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise). These are QUICKLOOKS only, and are thus intended for qualitative comparisons. Citation of these results without the consent of Wallace McMillan and Hui He is strictly prohibited. Additional details of this research can be found via the links below to my MOPITT Validation research.

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