| 1. Update skill curves vs. time | Forecast skill vs. time chart for 1960 thru 2007. Convert from anomaly correlation to $. Define minimum acceptable skill level. |
Baker Miller |
| 2. CAL / VAL Activities | Task descriptions, proposed funding source, and when funds are needed - to Hardesty 16 July 2008. Prioritize list of tasks based on ranked categories, connect to instrument performance and risk reduction for a U.S. demonstration mission. (Kicza requested info for fy10 cycle). Identify other wind observing systems for cross comparison. Identify use of ADM to reduce NexGen risk. |
Hardesty |
| 3. Explore benefits | Benefits to insurance industry. Episodic events. 1/3 of U.S. economy $4 trillion is in weather sensitive industries, NOAA just published analysis - relook at benefits of wind data. |
Miller Brown Emmitt |
| 4. NWOS Studies | Next steps for GSFC IDL/MDL studies. Identify issues: Orbit options (1330, 1730 (dawn/dusk), other), S/N, power considerations for different orbits, accommodation, maneuvering, diurnal wind variations, and conops. 1330 comes first in NexGen sequence, then 1330, need to be capable for either one. SOW to Mango 18 July 2008. Use of ADM to reduce NexGen risk. Mission conceptual design, accommodation, requirements, conops. |
Baker Gentry MDTeam |
| 6. Brief Dan Stockton NPOESS | 15 July. | Baker Gentry |
| 7. Executive Briefing | Four charts. | Baker Hardesty |
| 8. Forecast impact per $ cost of sounding, comparison with rawinsonde | Cost of rawinsonde network for global coverage, consider rawinsondes also provide temperature and moisture. | Bowdle |
| 1. Review adequacy of vertical resolution requirements in stratosphere with Ted Shepherd and others. | Completed | Baker |
| 2. Provide mass/power/volume budget and instrument life requirement to IDL team for Feb 2008 study. | Completed | Gentry Mango |
3. Proposal for P3 WSR DWL funding, In talking stage July 08. |
Emmitt | |
| 4. Identify funding sources for the various ADM Cal/Val activities. (NSF, Hardesty check with NCAR, and other). Investigators find their own funds. | Mission Definition Team | |
5. Plan for Display Booth or Session at
Hardesty requested special session, hasn’t heard back. Bob Brown provide suggestions to Michael Kavaya |
Kavaya Hardesty Brown |
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6. Re-examine aerosol background mode. Funded and in progress |
Bowdle Emmitt |
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7. Formalize collaboration on
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Riishojgaard & Hardesty on ADMAG. | Baker Riishojgaard Hardesty Emmitt Gentry Reale |
8. Brief Ken Leonard, FAA Aviation Weather, on Aviation benefits modeling. Follow up on route planning - Emmitt contacted FAA people who have routing models, waiting for response. Need to firm up the relationship between improved weather forecasts from winds and cost savings from route planning. |
Completed | Baker Emmitt Miller |
| 2. Work with T-PARC team to secure remaining funding for flight hours for Airborne Campaign near Japan. | Falcon is going to the Mission. 11 December 07. | Riishojgaard Hardesty Baker Weissman |
| 5. Review asymmetric sampling around hurricane, advantages of tipping field of regard. | Paper will be presented 9 July. | 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. | Underway | Riishojgaard Emmitt Weismann |
| 7. Secure funding for airborne-qualification of DAWN (LaRC 2 micron airborne system). | laRC funded for both DC-8 and Wb-57. Anticipate DC-8 hurricane flights (MJK). Paper 9 July. | Kavaya |
| 8. Secure funding and develop plan for full environmental testing for TWILITE (GSFC Direct Detection airborne system). | Funded to complete TWILITE & environmental tests, paper 8 July. | Gentry |
| 10. Assess Post-ADM scenario with GWOS in 60 degree orbit | Funded NASA ROSES 07. | Emmitt |
| 11. Assess FAA interest in improved weather forecasting. Benefits modeling, JPDO Weather Working Group. | Close 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 Emmitt Miller |
11a. Assess aviation needs for direct wind profiles vs. just weather forecast improvements. Also an issue with military – compare actuals with models to improve weather models. Real time discrepancies between forecasts and actual. Identify air pockets, Clear Air Turbulence, in real time? |
Open | Emmitt |
| 12. Develop plan for airborne participation in Hurricane Genesis Mission (NASA-led DWL field campaign in ROSES 09 for Hurricane Season 2010). Respond to expected NRA. | Awaiting NASA HQ decision on the NRA. | Gentry Hardesty Kavaya Emmitt |
| 4. Brief New NHC Director | Check with Bob re new Director. | Atlas |
| 7. Consider scatterometer lidar joint mission | Close Quikscat followon and lidar may not be destined for same time slot. Earliest Quikscat may be 2013. Wouldn’t want linkage to delay Quikscat. 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 |
| 8d. NASA Aeronautics, NIA, NGATS Input | Emmitt contact @ Langley, planning workshop on use of winds in NGATS. Combine this with the aviation Action Item. |
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 |
| 12. JCSDA develop core OSSE capability for evaluating wind lidars and related instruments | JCSDA made this a key focus area. Submitted funding request. NASA funded efforts ongoing – adaptive targeting, ROSES 07. |
Baker Riishojgaard |
| 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 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. Reitebach presented status of ADM @ Monterey Feb 2008. 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 Ted Shepherd (Canada) talk Monterey Feb 09. 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 |
| 7. Articlesfor 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 Wilkinson Yoe |