Agenda

Welches, Oregon
27 - 30 June 2006

Tuesday, June 27

8:30 - 9:10 Introductory Remarks and Review of Action Items from Previous Meetings - W. Baker

9:10 - 9:30 NASA's Interest in Wind Lidar - R. Kakar

9:30 - 10:00 Update on the Status of NPOESS - S. Mango

10:00 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 10:40 IIP Update: A Packaged Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar Transceiver - M. Kavaya, G. Koch, Y. Yu, B. Trieu, F. Amzajerdian. U. Singh, M. Petros

10:40 - 11:00 OSSE Plans Related to a Hybrid Mission and ADM Follow-on Missions - D. Emmitt

11:00 - 11:20 Local Wind and Turbulence Characterizations Derived from Ship-Based Coherent Doppler Lidar Measurements and Potential Effects on Space-Based System Performance - S. Tucker, M. Hardesty, W. Brewer, M. Post

11:20 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:20 Effects of Wind Uncertainties on Knowledge of Tropical Upper Tropospheric Humidity Fields - T. Miller, J. Pittman, P. Robertson

1:20 - 1:50 GLAS Cloud Statistics and Implications for a Hybrid DWL Mission - D. Emmitt, S. Greco

1:50 - 2:20 NPOESS Doppler Winds LIDAR Accommodation Study and Analysis - J. Wang, J. Bell, K. Kane, M. Kavaya

2:20 - 2:40 Planning for Airborne DWL Participation in Pacific-Asia Regional Campaign (PARC) - D. Emmitt, M. Hardesty

2:40 - 3:00 What Simple-Minded Surface Winds Can Do for Forecasting Weather - R. Brown

3:00 - 3:20 Break

3:20 - 3:50 Status of Laser/Lidar Working Group Requirements - M. Kavaya, B. Gentry

3:50 - 4:10 New Sampling Perspectives for TOWDL - D. Emmitt, C. O'Handley

4:10 - 4:50 OSSEs at NCEP and JCSDA - M. Masutani

Wednesday, June 28

8:30 - 8:50 Update on Development of an Integrated Remote-Sensing Testbed for Tropospheric Air Quality and Winds - M. Newchurch, S. Christopher, D. Bowdle, K. Knupp, W. Petersen, M. Botts, S. Johnson, R. Williams, D. Emmitt

8:50 - 9:20 TWiLITE Aircraft Etalon Qualification - M. Dehring

9:20 - 9:50 BalloonWinds Update - M. Dehring, I. Dors

9:50 - 10:20 Testing of the Space Winds LIDAR Laser Transmitter Prototype - F. Hovis, J. Wang

10:20 - 10:40 Break

10:40 - 11:10 Qualifications and Intregration of the Laser Transmitter for the CALIPSO Aerosol Lidar Mission - F. Hovis, G. Witt, E. Sullivan, K. Le, C. Weimer, J. Applegate

11:10 - 11:40 CALIPSO Commissioning Status - C. Weimer

11:40 – 12:00 Coherent Lidar Measurements during the 2003 GroundWinds Intercomparison Campaign - S. Tucker, M. Hardesty, A. Brewer (presentation deferred to future meeting

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

NASA/NOAA/DoD Working Group on a DWL Mission

Concept - Plenary Session

1:00 - 1:30 DWL Demonstration Mission Alternatives - K. Miller

1:30 - 3:00 Discussion

3:00 - 3:20 Break

3:20 - 5:00 Off-line Discussions

Thursday, June 29

8:30 - 5:00 Subcommittee Discussions

Friday, June 30

8:30 - 9:00 Subcommittee Reports and Recommendations

9:00 - 10:00 Presentation of Short Subjects

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

10:30 Adjourn