1. Review adequacy of vertical resolution requirements in stratosphere with Ted Shepherd and others. |
Baker |
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2. Provide mass/power/volume budget and instrument life requirement to IDL team for Feb 2008 study. |
Gentry |
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3. Proposal for P3 WSR DWL funding, |
Emmitt |
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4. Identify funding sources for the various ADM Cal/Val activities. (NSF, Hardesty check with NCAR, and other) |
Mission Definition Team |
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5. Plan for Display Booth or Session at AMS Jan 2009 Phoenix AMS special meetings, e.g., hurricanes, aviation AGU Conference |
Mission Definition Team |
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6. Re-examine aerosol background mode. |
Bowdle |
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7. Formalize collaboration on · Post-ADM mission planning · Reducing latency for North America and Southern Hemisphere · Joint OSSEs for ADM & follow-on mission |
Riishojgaard & Hardesty on ADMAG |
Baker |
8. Brief Ken Leonard on Aviation benefits modeling |
Baker |
2. Work with T-PARC team to secure remaining funding for flight hours for Airborne Campaign near Japan |
Additional support may be needed. Ken check with Martin Weissman 12/11/07. |
Riishojgaard |
5. Review asymmetric sampling around hurricane, advantages of tipping field of regard. |
Open |
Emmitt |
6. Define experiment to compare single-LOS vs. bi-perspective (2 LOS in close proximity) using T-PARC data with more than one assimilation system. |
Open |
Riishojgaard |
7. Secure funding for airborne-qualification of DAWN (LaRC 2 micron airborne system). |
LaRC ROSES AITT proposal is in negotiation. NOAA and LaRC internal funding will provide pointing knowledge subsystem. |
Kavaya |
8. Secure funding and develop plan for full environmental testing for TWILITE (GSFC Direct Detection airborne system). |
Open |
Gentry |
10. Assess Post-ADM scenario with GWOS in 60 degree orbit |
Open |
Emmitt |
11. Assess FAA interest in improved weather forecasting. Benefits modeling, JPDO Weather Working Group. |
Wayman briefed Charles Leader, head of the Joint Program Development Office for Next Generation Air Traffic Management. Contacts identified for technical interaction, but no response yet. We are looking for collaboration on air transportation benefits. |
Baker |
11a. Assess aviation needs for direct wind profiles vs. just weather forecast improvements. |
Open |
Emmitt |
12. Develop plan for airborne participation in Hurricane Genesis Mission (NASA-led DWL field campaign in Hurricane Season 2009). Respond to expected NRA. |
Awaiting NASA HQ decision on the NRA. |
Gentry |
4. Brief New NHC Director |
Open |
Atlas |
7. Consider scatterometer lidar joint mission |
Wait for current evaluation of Scatterometers. Emmitt & Brown looking at how the two can work together to produce a better product. Experiments needed to pin down benefits. |
Brown |
8d. NASA Aeronautics, NIA, NGATS Input |
Emmitt contact @ Langley, planning workshop on use of winds in NGATS |
Emmitt |
8f. Seek support for a DWL mission from the Tropical Meteorology community. |
Open Attend AMS and other tropical research conferences, present papers. NOAA Hurricane Research division is supportive, wants aircraft DWL hurricane reconnaissance first. This could help win support from the National Hurricane Center and the larger tropical community if successful. Propose DWL hurricane reconnaissance. Building gradually. Presentations at AMS Tropical meetings would help, especially with aircraft observations in Saharan air layers, and near tropical disturbances and storms. |
Atlas |
9. Deploy TWILITE in WSR, winter 2009? |
Too late to do this. No expressions of interest from potential sponsors |
Gentry |
10. Fly 2 micron and TWILITE together on a/c |
Planning for DC-8 |
Hardesty |
12. JCSDA develop core OSSE capability for evaluating wind lidars and related instruments |
JCSDA internal discussion continuing JCSDA made this a key focus area. Need funding |
Baker |
26. Validate ISAL assumptions and findings, re-evaluate design, architecture alternatives, adaptive targeting |
GWOS (2006) baselined full power mission Some interest in re-evaluating adaptive targeting savings Next Gen NPOESS ISAL scheduled for Feb 2008 |
Gentry |
1. Design a lidar pod instead of modifying aircraft for lidar. Investigate use of DC8. Investigate use of ER2. |
Airborne planning task was approved for NOAA funding 6/07. NASA agreed on a preliminary plan for flying Direct and Coherent lidars together on DC-8, discussed at Monterey 2008. |
Emmitt |
9. Continue to invite scientists to present their DWL data requirements for their respective research areas at future LWG meetings. |
Open |
Baker |
13. Inventory the various wind lidars for wind measurement. |
Put list on USRA Website. |
Emmitt |
5. Study on-orbit performance projections based on ground-based and airborne demonstrations. Concentrate on the domain of weak signals. Justify areas where improved performance can be invoked in the space-based systems. |
Provide specifications, model validation |
Hardesty |
6. Use CALIPSO, GLAS data to improve existing models of aerosol backscatter at both UV and NIR wavelengths. |
Emmitt paper @ Snowmass Moved from cloud statistics, now looking at aerosols. |
Emmitt |
9. Maintain liaison with ADM; improve the information exchange with ADM; encourage an ADM person to attend future LWG meetings. |
Maintaining liaison. Reitebach presented status of ADM @ Monterey Feb 2008 Weissman presented updates at Summer LWG meeting
Endemann attended Winter 2007 LWG meeting. Wayman requested FY10 NOAA funds to evaluate ADM data. |
Hardesty |
12. Interact with transport studies community, Army battlefield, boundary layer thru stratospheric transport |
Ongoing Ted Shepherd (Canada) talk Monterey Feb 09. Lars Peter invite GSFC people for talks Bach talk on reqts? |
Hardesty |
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 |
7. Articles for refereed literature on advances in lidar technology, OSSEs, ground-based and airborne measurements, etc. since the BAMS 1995 |
J. Yoe chair discussion of BAMS II article Bob is working on refereed article on OSSE results. |
Atlas |