1. Confirm DWL flight on P3 for WSR 08 Airborne Campaign (old Twin Otter system)

Planning underway

Emmitt

2. Work with T-PARC team to secure remaining funding for flight hours for Airborne Campaign near Japan

DLR about

$375 K short

Riishojgaard
Hardesty
Baker
Weissman

3. Invite Ted Shepherd on stratospheric transport studies

Hardesty

4. Invite Paul Newman on stratospheric transport studies

Gentry

5. Review asymmetric sampling around hurricane, advantages of tipping field of regard.

Emmitt
Atlas

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.

Riishojgaard
Emmitt
Weissman

7. Secure funding for airborne-qualification of DAWN (LaRC 2 micron airborne system).

Kavaya

8. Secure funding and develop plan for full environmental testing for TWILITE (GSFC Direct Detection airborne system).

Gentry

9. Transatlantic Collaboration

• Future mission scenarios
• Reducing latency for North America and Southern Hemisphere
• Joint OSSEs for ADM & follow-on missions

Riishojgaard
Hardesty
Emmitt
Gentry
Reale

10. Assess Post-ADM scenario with GWOS in 60 degree orbit

Emmitt

11. Assess FAA interest in improved weather forecasting. Benefits modeling, JPDO Weather Working Group.

Baker
Emmitt
Miller
Elsawy

11a. Assess need for direct wind profiles vs. just weather forecast improvements. How to do this?

Emmitt

12. Develop plan for airborne participation in CAMEX-6 (NASA-led DWL field campaign in Hurricane Season 2009). Respond to expected NRA.

Gentry
Hardesty
Kavaya
Emmitt

13. Make final decision on TODWL WSR participation by October 07

Emmitt

14. Cal/Val Proposal to ESA

• Components: Measurement, Assimilation
• Review SPARCLE cal/val plan
• Encourage University participation in proposal. Participants would get data, provide their own funding (e.g., NSF).
• Prepare outline and distribute by October 1
• Prepare draft response and distribute by Nov 1
• Send copy of draft proposal to relevant NASA Program Manager
• Submit proposal by Dec 15

Hardesty
Riishojgaard
Gentry

15. Check on NSF interest in funding ADM cal/val proposals (Mike will also check this with NCAR).

Emmitt
Hardesty
Riishojgaard

16. Finalize NextGen NPOESS ISAL Plan and review with Steve Mango.

Conference call July 24, 07

Gentry

4. Brief New NHC Director

Defer till we have a new NHC Director.

Atlas

5. Continue liaison with NOSC

Mike Hardesty briefed NOSC June 8, 2007

Hardesty

6. NOSC & NOAA Research Council recommendation to NEC. 

NEC recommendation to NOAA Administrator

Letter from NOAA Administrator to NASA Administrator

Need a NOAA Executive Council (NEC) or NEP briefing by Hardesty

NOSC briefing went well

Don’t need to brief NOAA Research Council again.

Baker
Hardesty

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
Atlas
Emmitt

8. DOD possible STP launch and partnerships

Letter from AF Director of Weather to NASA HQ – willingness to endorse winds mission, help argue for STP support

Break this into action items re: FAA, other

Briefed AF Weather, AF Space Command

Baker working with Col. Walker (AF) on AF letter addressing value to AF mission and recommend STP support.

Follow up on letter to NASA, partnership roles.

Baker
Kakar
Hardesty

8a. FAA Input

Letter from FAA or JPDO to NASA HQ – endorse winds mission

Flight and Benefits modeling

JPDO Weather WG

Briefed C. Leader, JPDO Jun 18, 2007

Baker
Miller
Emmitt

8b. Navy Support

Letter

Briefed NRL

Baker
Emmitt

8c. Army Support

Letter

Briefed Army Military Intelligence Operations,

Baker
Emmitt

8d. NASA Aeronautics, NIA, NGATS Input

Emmitt contact @ Langley, planning workshop on use of winds in NGATS

Emmitt

8e. IATA, ICAO Input

NGATS airline routing, safety, fuel economy, pollution

8f. Seek support for a DWL mission from the Tropical Meteorology community.

Ongoing

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?

Timeline is possible if all goes according to plan. 

On track to finish instrument build by July 2008

No expressions of interest yet from potential sponsors to integrate

Gentry

10. Fly 2 micron and TWILITE together on a/c

Develop plan, some funding available for plan

TWILITE will be ready before DAWN

Select option.

Reasons to fly hybrid on an aircraft are:

1. Assure people about technology readiness for space
2. Experience processing hybrid wind data
3. Resource for customers such as NOAA for hurricanes
4. Atmospheric study

Hardesty
Emmitt
Gentry
Kavaya

12. JCSDA develop core OSSE capability for evaluating wind lidars and related instruments

Michiko presented update at Snowmass

Lars Peter is new JCSDA  Director

JCSDA made this a key focus area.

Need funding

Baker
Riishojgaard

16. Review economic benefits studies for MODIS winds, GOES-R

MODIS impact study due in fall 2007 (Dittberner)

Riishojgaard
Miller

18. Investigate how DWL in space can help meet DOD requirements (see Pawlak presentation Feb 2007)

Keep Open

Pawlak
Miller

25. Need coordinated response to ESA ADM AO (cal/val funds requested from NOAA, NASA, IPO)

ESA AO Oct 2007, proposals due Dec 2007

Discussed response to AO in Snowmass, Mike lead instrument side, Lars Peter lead NWP side.

Supported in part by NOAA FY10 budget initiative submitted by Baker

Will IPO or NASA funds be available?

Hardesty
Riishojgaard
Emmitt
Baker

26. Validate ISAL assumptions and findings, re-evaluate design, architecture alternatives, adaptive targeting

GWOS (2006) baselined full power mission, some desire to re-evaluate adaptive targeting savings

Next Gen NPOESS ISAL scheduled for Oct 2007, evaluate thermal impact on NPOESS instrument thermal can be evaluated

Gentry
Kavaya
Emmitt
Miller

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.

Focused airborne plan to include

• Requested aircraft (i.e., WB-57, G-4, Falcon, etc.),
• Approach to getting a/c commitment
• Airborne campaign(s) (PARC, WSR, hurricanes, etc.),
• DWL instrument components,
• Cost estimates (i.e., flight hours, instrument integration, etc.) by FY
• Timeline
• How should a/c measurements proceed after the initial WB-57 TwiLite demonstrations?
• Hybrid demonstrator or pod configuration
• Pod configuration could be used on other aircraft

DC8 has

• nadir and up-look ports
• space and ports for hybrid demonstration.

Emmitt
Hardesty
Gentry
Kavaya
Kakar

9. Continue to invite scientists to present their DWL data requirements for their respective research areas at future LWG meetings.

Ongoing

Baker

11. Collaborate on a WSR campaign for ~ 2008 in the Pacific.

Emmitt putting together a test flight on Navy P3, may be available for winter 2008.

TWILITE will be ready by Winter 2009

DLR Falcon w 2µm DWL expected for Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (PARC) summer 08, based in Asia to observe the western side of the Pacific. Reitebuch interested in participation.

Investigate deployment on WSR aircraft (Toth, Emmitt check AF C130, Hardesty check optical capability of new NOAA P3). What instruments will get on AF C130? NOAA P3 still in procurement.

Hardesty
Reitebuch
(Baker)
(Emmitt)
(Toth)

13. Inventory the various wind lidars for wind measurement.

Put list on USRA Website.

Emmitt
Hallmark

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
Emmitt
Gentry
Kavaya
Dehring

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

Winker
Spinhirne
Bowdle

9. Maintain liaison with ADM; improve the information exchange with ADM; encourage an ADM person to attend future LWG meetings.

Maintaining liaison.

Weissman presented updates at Summer LWG meeting

Hardesty and Yoe attended ESA ADM meeting.

Endemann attended Winter 2007 LWG meeting.

Wayman requested FY10 NOAA funds to evaluate ADM data.

Hardesty

Riishojgaard

12. Interact with transport studies community, Army battlefield, boundary layer thru stratospheric transport

Ongoing

Hardesty invite Paul Shepherd (Canada) for talk

Lars Peter invite GSFC people for talks

Bach talk on reqts?

Hardesty

Riishojgaard

Bach

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
Frehlich
Emmitt
Foster

5. Coordinate and scale to space, using observations from existing lidar systems, to verify space-based instrument specifications

I. Dors has:

• Models that predict photometric return given laser power, telescope size, orbit, and atmospheric properties.
• Instrument model, validated by lab measurements, that predicts the measured signal level for a given photometric return.
• Shown precision within 2x the statistical signal limit when detector read and fixed-pattern noise sources are negligible, and continue to improve.
• BalloonWinds will make downward measurements to validate 355-nm photometric return models and characterize precision of velocity measurement.

Hardesty
Emmitt
Gentry
Kavaya
Gatt
Dors

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
Emmitt
Ryan
Yoe