Agenda

Key West, Florida
23-25 January 2002

Wednesday, January 23

8:30 - 8:50 Introductory Remarks and Review of Action Items from the Previous Meeting - W. Baker

8:50 - 9:20 Status of the NASA New Millennium Program - G. Spiers

9:20 - 9:50 Sensitivity of Numerical Weather Prediction to Initial State Uncertainty in Selected Upstream Domains - J. Paegle

9:50 - 10:10 Scatterometer vis a vis Wind Lidar: Friend or Foe? - R. Brown

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 10:50 Development of Mobile Validation Lidar Facility at NASA/LaRC - F. Amzajerdian, G. Koch, B. Barnes, C. Mills, M. Kavaya, U. Singh

10:50 - 11:10 Some Activities in the Japanese Space Lidar Group - K. Asai

11:10 - 11:30 Progress on Laser Work at CTI - M. Huffaker

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:20 Multi-Detector Processing of Vibration Influenced Doppler Lidar Returns - D. Killinger, P. Mamidipudi

1:20 - 1:50 Double-Pulsed 2-Micron Laser Transmitter for Wind Measurement - U. Singh, J. Yu

1:50 - 2:10 Trade-off between Science Data Requirements and Lidar Engineering Design - R. Frehlich, M. Kavaya

2:10 - 2:30 A Space-Based Coherent Wind Lidar Point Design for the NASA/NOAA Draft Science and Operational Data Requirements - M. Kavaya, D. Emmitt, R. Frehlich, F. Amzajerdian, U. Singh

2:30 - 2:50 Performance of Coherent Doppler Lidar for General Space-Based Conditions with Pulse Accumulation - R. Frehlich

2:50 - 3:20 Proposal for a Mesoscale Upper Air Observing System to help Mitigate Effects of Terrorism: The Role of Doppler Lidar Winds - R. Fleming

3:20 - 3:40 Break

3:40 - 4:00 Results of Simulation Activities for UCAR-NOAA ETL - M. McGill, W. Skinner

4:00 - 4:20 Status of Regional OSSEs at FSL M. Hardesty

4:20 - 4:40 Using a Holographic Detection Fringe-Imaging System - M. McGill

4:40 - 5:00 Status of Global OSSEs at NCEP - W. Baker

5:00 - 5:10 Backscatter and Velocity Measurements from Simulated River Surfaces Using the NASA, MSFC Pulsed 2-Micron Doppler Lidar: Preliminary Results - D. Bowdle, J. Rothermel, S. Johnson, P. Kromis, T. Papetti

5:10 - 5:30 Technology Assessment of Direct Detection in Support of the GTWS - B. Gentry

Thursday - January 24

8:30 - 9:00 Status of TODWL and Other IPO Funded Activities - D. Emmit et al.

9:00 - 9:20 A Hybrid DWL Concept for Instrument and Mission Analyses - D. Emmitt, B. Gentry, M. Kavaya

9:20 - 9:50 Status of NPOESS - S. Mango

9:50 -10:20 DoD's Requirement for Global Wind Profile Observations - D. Harrison

10:20 -10:40 Break

10:40 -11:00 A New NASA Technology Development Program for Risk Reduction of Space-Based Lidar Missions - M. Kavaya, U. Singh, F. Amzajerdian

11:00 -11:10 Intercomparisons of HARLIE and GLOW Lidar Wind Measurements - G. Schwemmer

11:10 -11:20 HARGLO-2 Synoptic Context - D. Miller

11:20 -11:40 Methods of Deriving Winds from HARLIE - T. Wilkerson

11:40 -12:00 GLOW Winds - HARGLOW-2 Results and Prospects - B. Gentry

12:00 -12:10 Summary and Plans for HARGLO - G. Schwemmer

12:10 - 12:20 Update on the Winter Reconnaissance Program - W. Baker

12:20 - 1:20 Lunch

Global Tropospheric Wind Sounder (GTWS) and Related Activities

1:20 - 1:40 NOAA Program Status of the GTWS and Related Activities - J. Pereira

1:40 - 2:10 NASA's Plans to Develop Enabling Technologies for a GTWS - F. Peri

2:10 - 2:40 GTWS Science Definition Team and Data Requirements - J. Yoe, R. Atlas

2:40 - 3:00 Discussion of the GTWS Reference Atmospheres and Their Use - D. Emmitt

3:00 - 3:20 Break

3:20 - 3:50 GTWS Reference Designs - K. Miller

3:50 - 4:20 Groundwinds Demo Campaign Analysis Summary - R. Mundakkara

4:20 - 4:50 Groundwinds New Hampshire Status Report - P. Dunphy

4:50 - 5:10 Layered Structures Detected in GW NH Data - R. Mundakkara

5:10 - 5:40 Status of Groundwinds Hawaii - C. Nardell

Friday, January 25

8:30 - 8:50 Regional Atmospheric Profiling Center for Discovery (RAPCD) at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center: Concept and Status - M. Newchurch, D. Bowdle

8:50 - 9:10 Current Lidar Activities at JPL - G. Spiers

9:10 - 9:30 Subcommittee Reports and Recommendations

9:30 -10:00 Presentation of Short Subjects

- GTWS Community Doppler Lidar Simulation Model - S. Wood

- Attempting to Define Requirements for Operational Marine Forecasters - R. Hoffman

10:00 -10:30 Review of Action Items; Next Meeting

10:30 Adjourn