Below are Acrobat (pdf), PowerPoint (ppt or pptx), Excel (xls or xlsx) or Word (doc or docx) versions of several of the presentations made during the LWG meeting.

DAY ONE - Tuesday, October 16

9:00 - Welcome and Goals of the Meeting - M. Hardesty and L. P. Riishojgaard

9:20 - NASA/ESTO Update - G. Komar

9:50 - Update on Operationally Responsive Space - T. Adang

10:40 - ADM -Aeolus: Recent Achievements and Future Prospects - A. Culoma, A. G. Straume, A. Elfving [ document 1 | document 2 ]

11:20 - Revisiting target atmospheres for space-based DWL concept comparisons - D. Emmitt and S. Wood

1:20 - Coherent lidar wind measurement activities at NASA Langley - M. Kavaya, G. Koch, U. Singh, J. Yu

1:50 - Latest Results from High Altitude Test Flights of the TWiLiTE Direct Detection Doppler Lidar - B. Gentry, H. Chen, J.Cervantes, R. Machan, D. Reed, S. Mitchell, C. Marx

2:20 - Space-Flight Qualification of the ICESat-2 Laser Transmitters - F. Hovis

2:50 - Optimum number of azimuth angles for an airborne, step-stare scanning, coherent wind lidar - M. Kavaya

3:40 - Lidar Measurement of Winds in the Upper Atmosphere - X. Chu

4:20 - Mountain meteorology research using the TODWL - D. Emmitt and S. de Welkker

DAY TWO - Wednesday, October 17

8:50 - Results of the OAWL ISS Study at the Goddard Instrument Design Lab - S. Tucker, C. Weimer, T. Delker

9:20 - The OAWL OSSE - R. Atlas [ document 1 | document 2 ]

9:50 - Introduction to the Fabry-Perot for the Integrated Direct Detection Lidar: FIDDL - S. Tucker, T. Delker, C. Weimer

10:40 - Introduction to HSRL measurements with the Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar: HOAWL - T. Delker, S. Tucker

11:00 - Using TODWL to support unified parameterization investigations - D. Emmitt, R. Foster, K. Godwin

11:20 - Lidar Wind Measurements over tropical and subtropical oceans - A. Brewer

1:20 - Analysis of a Low Level Jet System with lidar observations, numerical simulations and data assimilation - Z. Pu , Z. Li, B. Demoz, B. Gentry and S. Tucker (will be updated soon when we get the updated presentation)

1:40 - Summary: Sedona Workshop on the Impact of Various Observing Systems on NWP - L. P. Riishojgaard

2:10 - Update on the Joint OSSE System: the 2011 Global Observing System - M. Masutani

2:30 - Impact of Satellite Atmospheric Motion Vectors in the GMAO GEOS-5 Global Data Assimilation System - D. Merkova and R. Gelaro

3:30 - Improving the NOAA Joint global OSSE System for Lidar data impact evaluation - Y. Xie

3:50 - OSSEs to assess the impact of early morning orbit coverage - S. Casey