1. Brief R. Spinrad |
Hardesty |
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2. Brief M. Kicza (NESDIS) |
Hardesty |
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3. Brief Uccellini, D.L. Johnson |
Baker |
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4. Brief Proenza, NHC Director |
Atlas |
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5. Brief NOSC |
Include discriminators (OSSEs, costs, benefits, etc.) |
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6. NOSC & NOAA Research Council recommendation to NEC. NEC recommendation to NOAA Administrator |
tbd |
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7. Consider scatterometer lidar joint mission |
Brown |
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8. DOD discussions of possible STP launch and partnership with NASA |
Baker |
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9. Deploy TWILITE in WSR, winter 2008? |
Gentry |
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10. Fly 2-micron system on a/c |
B57? Develop plan |
Hardesty |
11. De-scope options and/or find partners to make next cut (i.e., adaptive targeting to reduce s/c resources) |
tbd |
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12. Work with NOAA EMP and NESDIS/OSD to develop a set of instrument discriminators to assist NOAA Weather and Water Goal Team, and other Goal Teams, in prioritizing instruments |
Baker |
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13. JCSDA consider OSSEs for satellite instruments being considered by NOAA |
Baker |
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14. Make target milestone chart for a/c and space demos, operational mission(s) (see Mango 18 yr timeline 2/6/07) |
tbd |
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15. Repeat SOSE experiment w US hybrid data to compare with ESA alternatives |
Marseille |
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16. Review economic benefits studies for MODIS winds, GOES-R |
Riishojgaard |
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17. Contact FAA |
Baker |
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18. Investigate how DWL in space can help meet DOD requirements |
Pawlak |
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19. Benefits briefing to Pereira/Adang |
Baker |
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20. Plan to deploy TWILITE, Winter 2008 |
Gentry |
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21. Plan to fly 2 micron system on WB57 |
Hardesty |
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22. NOSC=>Ucellini/Johnson=>NEC, Lautenbacher=>Griffin=> Mike Frielich=>Cleave=>Ramesh |
Baker |
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23. AF Weather letter to NASA HQ |
tbd |
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24. FY10 Budget submissions |
tbd |
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25. Coordinated response to ESA ADM AO (cal/val funds requested from NOAA, NASA, IPO) |
Hardesty |
Note: missing numbers correspond to closed action items.
1. Design a lidar pod instead of modifying aircraft for lidar. |
DC8 has nadir and up-look ports. DC8 has space and multiple ports for hybrid demonstration. |
Emmitt |
2. Calibrate performance expectation against ADM. |
Make a plan to "calibrate" our ADM DWL performance models against the actual performance of ADM. Must know or infer ADM system parameters (e.g., E, D and all efficiencies). Put together (collectively) a funded ADM cal/val component in the USA. Hardesty is coordinating with ADM to support calibration and validation and to share data. |
Hardesty |
3. Update Architecture Alternatives briefing |
ESSP option (slide 7), closed Identify DOD support non-STP (slide 12) - not yet identified Check 13 db gain for orbit - drop the “13 db”. Performance and instrument parameters for the demo mission were investigated by Emmitt, Kavaya, Gentry for NASA ESTO ISAL/IMDC in September. - closed ESTO ISAL/IMDC produced a demo design for 400 km orbit. A demo design for 824 km NPOESS orbit is needed. >Add “STP launch to ISS” option - done Recheck 833 vs. 400 km trade graph -done, next step is ISAL for 824 km orbit Update wallplug efficiency (slide 34) - done Recommend close this action item |
Miller |
4. Investigate ISS alternatives and feasibility |
Emmitt |
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5. Invite Dave Winker to give CALIPSO talk Winter 07. |
Baker |
1. Brief NOAA senior management (R. Spinrad, D. Johnson, G. Withee) on the DWL demonstration mission concept and potential impact on NOAA’s mission. |
Spinrad (OAR): Hardesty and Atlas ready to brief. Sent Spinrad a pre-brief summary, awaiting reply. Johnson (NWS), Withee (NESDIS): Hardesty and Atlas brief NOAA Observing Systems Council. Wayman distributed white paper (Toepfer, Ralph, Davis, Karl). Send update to Amy Clement. DOD: Maj Pawlak will explore briefing DoD Space Experiments Review Board re AF STP DWL demo. |
Hardesty |
2. Consider giving an informational briefing to NASA HQ (M. Cleave et al.), taking into account the advice from the NOAA briefings. |
Mary Cleave passed it to Earth Science Division. Ramesh Kakar is POC. Mary is familiar with DWL. Supportive NRC Decadal Survey report (Draft expected August 06) is a critical next step at NASA. ESTO Lidar WG ranked DWL demo as highest priority near term mission, heavily weighting societal benefits. |
Hardesty |
3. Pursue possible cost sharing of an IPO-funded ISAL effort by ESTO for an 833 km DWL multi-spectral demonstration mission and request information for scaling to a 400 km orbit. |
ESTOinterested pending NRC Decadal Survey report, expected August 2006. |
Gentry |
5. Update the IORD requirements with the threshold/objective requirements vetted through the NASA ESTO Laser/ Lidar Working Group. |
This was tabled during the Spring due to the Nunn-McCurdy process taking so much IPO attention. It will be re-opened and pursued this Summer. Formal IORD updates not planned, requirements recertified. |
Yoe |
6. Invite DoD representatives to future LWG meetings |
Major Dan Pawlak is the Air Force POC for the LWG activities. Sent formal letter to Admiral _________, no response. |
Baker |
7. Make the LaRC NPOESS DWL accommodation study results available to the GSFC ISAL Team. |
Closed. Results were available, not requested by ISAL or IMDC. J. Wang presented study results at June 06 LWG meeting in Welches OR. Raytheon paper restricted by export control. |
Kavaya |
8. Seek support for a DWL mission from the Tropical Meteorology community. |
This is ongoing. NOAA's Hurricane Research division is supportive of a DWL mission, but would like to see hurricane reconnaissance with an aircraft DWL first. This could also serve to win proposing DWL hurricane reconnaissance. |
Atlas |
9. Continue to invite scientists to present their DWL data requirements for their respective research areas at future LWG meetings. |
Invited two scientific presentations. Amy Clement (U. of Miami) will give a presentation at the Winter ’07 meeting. |
Baker |
11. Collaborate on a WSR campaign for ~ 2008 in the Pacific. |
Telecon with Baker, Hardesty, Reitebuch on May 15 at JCSDA. Also discussed among Toth, Baker, Reitebuch, and Emmitt on May 15. Participation of DLR Falcon with 2µm DWL expected for Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (PARC) in summer 2008 based in Asia to observe the western side of the Pacific. O. Reitebuch interested in participation. Possible deployment on WSR aircraft should be investigated (Toth, Emmitt check AF C130, Hardesty to check optical capability of new NOAA P3). What instruments will get on AF C130? NOAA P3 still in procurement. |
Hardesty |
13. Inventory the various wind lidars for wind measurement. |
Dave will put the list on USRA Website. |
Emmitt |
5. Continue studies on projecting on-orbit performance based on demonstrated performance of ground-based and airborne systems. Concentrate on the domain of weak signals. Justify the areas where improved performance can be invoked in the space-based systems. |
M. Kavaya performed weak signal trade studies and will present them in Miami; related to action item. On-going. |
Hardesty |
6. Use GLAS data to improve existing models of aerosol backscatter at both UV and NIR wavelengths. |
Moved from cloud statistics, now looking at aerosols. |
Emmitt |
7. Investigate the potential impact of improved detector efficiency at 1 micron. |
Gentry |
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9. Maintain liaison with ADM; improve the information exchange with ADM; encourage an ADM person to attend future LWG meetings. |
Hardesty maintaining liaison. Hardesty and Yoe will attend upcoming ESA ADM meeting. Wayman requested funds to analyze ADM data. |
Hardesty |
10. Fly the hybrid DWL in an aircraft. |
Three year NASA IIP studies funded for airborne coherent and direct DWLs for aircraft. Need to plan for integration and demo in aircraft. |
Emmitt |
11. Continue data impact studies at NCEP and GSFC to refine adaptive targeting strategies and technology requirements. |
Studies at NCEP and GSFC to refine adaptive targeting strategies and technology requirements. |
Emmitt |
12. Interact with the community involved with transport studies. |
Hardesty |
1. Need to find a way to obtain coincident intercomparisons - either lidar vs. lidar, or lidar vs. sondes |
Gentry |
1. A benchmark statistical description of the sub-grid scale velocity field is needed. |
Emmitt will fly some long baselines with TODWL, higher resolution, scatterometer/lidar comparisons. Missing the lidar scale (1-2 km, 100 m to 1km footprint) for statistics. Europe has worked in this area. |
Brown |
3. The Lidar Working Group should use the Lidar Technology Roadmap to track progress and provide updates to Ken Miller. |
1. Wayman initiating new start proposal for FY09 budget cycle. 2. Recent roadmap inputs from LRRP, ESTO WG, Hovis laser advances, ISAL/IMDC design for 400 km demo instrument, industry. 3. Next step is to update DWL roadmap. Key milestones would be:
4. Interagency WG reviewed candidate scenarios for agency roles in a joint mission and ROM cost numbers. Ongoing |
Miller |
4. The use of GLAS data to improve the height assignment of GOES winds should be pursued. |
Proposal not funded by NOAA. |
Reagan |
5. Coordinate and scale to space, using observations from existing lidar systems, to verify space-based instrument specifications |
Dors has:
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Hardesty |
6. How to approach NASA HQ on the importance of tropospheric winds needs to be discussed, including how the measurements could be valuable in gaining a better understanding of the atmosphere of Mars. |
Extensive materials prepared for NRC decadal survey, ESTO Lidar Working Group (LWG), management white paper. ESTO LWG identified trop winds demo as the single highest priority mission in the oeuvre. The overriding criterion was "societal benefit," based on mitigation of severe weather impacts. LWG reported to George Komar (Acting Chief Technologist for the NASA Science Mission Directorate) on June 15, 2006. The priority position of a winds demo mission was discussed. It was pointed out that while the case might be contested that other measurements were equally important (or even more so), that nevertheless the observed impact of a winds mission would be felt much sooner than other competing measurements. Hence its ranking in the working group's report. Ramesh emphasized the need. Closed Mars aspect. |
Tratt |
7. Need to prepare articles for the refereed literature updating the many advances in lidar technology, OSSEs, ground-based and airborne measurements, etc. since the BAMS 1995 article was published. (J. Yoe to chair discussion of possible BAMS II article) |
Jim anticipates an early July telecon on this topic. Bob is working on refereed article on OSSE results. |
Atlas |