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EVENTS/ SEP 11 - 15, 2006, BOULDER, CO
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Aura Science and Validation Team Meeting
NCAR Center Green Facility, Boulder, CO
September 11-15, 2006
AGENDA
Item
Document
Author
Monday a.m.
Introduction, Instrument overviews
Douglass (GSFC), Chair
Monday a.m./p.m.
Plenary Session
Douglass (GSFC), Chair
Monday p.m.
Working Group and Validation Subgroup Sessions:
- Education and Public Outreach Working Group
Stockman (SSAI), Chair
- Meteorological Products Working Group
Manney (JPL), Chair
- Radiances/Forward Model Validation Subgroup
Clough (AER), Chair
- Tropospheric Air Quality Validation Subgroup
Pickering (GSFC), Chair
- Stratospheric Ozone Validation Subgroup
Wang, Chair
- CO Validation Subgroup
Luo (JPL), Chair
- HNO3 Validation Subgroup
Santee (JPL), Chair
- H2O and N2O Validation Subgroup
Rosenlof, Chair
Tuesday a.m.
Working Group and Validation Subgroup Reports
Joiner (GSFC), Chair
Tuesday a.m./p.m.
Plenary Session
Joiner (GSFC), Chair
Tuesday p.m.
Working Group and Validation Subgroup Sessions:
- Mission Operations Working Group
Kelly (GSFC), Chair
- Aerosol/SO2/Cloud Working Group and Validation Subgroup
Massie (NCAR), Chair
- Radicals Validation Subgroup
Salawitch (JPL), Chair
- Temperature Validation Subgroup
Pawson (GSFC), Chair
- Total/Tropospheric Ozone Validation Subgroup
Kroon (KNMI) and McPeters (GSFC), Chair
Tuesday p.m.
Poster Session I
Wednesday a.m.
Working Group and Validation Subgroup Reports
Schoeberl (GSFC), Chair
Wednesday a.m./p.m.
Plenary Session
Schoeberl (GSFC), Chair
Wednesday p.m.
Working Group and Validation Subgroup Sessions:
- Data Systems Working Group
Craig (NCAR), Chair
- Chlorine Validation Subgroup
Froidevaux (JPL), Chair
Wednesday p.m.
Poster Session II
Wednesday p.m.
TC-4 Information Meeting
Toon (U. Colorado), Chair
Thursday a.m.
Working Group and Validation Subgroup Reports
Witte (SSAI), Chair
Thursday a.m./p.m.
Validation Plenary Session
Witte (SSAI), Chair
Friday a.m.
Plenary Session
Gille (NCAR), Chair
Introduction and Instrument Overview
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
8:30 a.m.
Welcome and Logistics
Gille (NCAR)
8:35 a.m.
Introduction
Schoeberl (GSFC)
8:50 a.m.
NASA Headquarters
deCola (NASA HQ)
9:00 a.m.
HIRDLS Overview:
PDF ,
PPT
Gille (NCAR)/Barnett (Oxford U.)
9:15 a.m.
MLS Overview:
PDF ,
PPT
Livesey (JPL)
9:30 a.m.
OMI Overview:
PDF ,
PPT
Levelt (KNMI)
9:45 a.m.
TES Overview:
PDF ,
PPT
Beer (JPL)
10:00 a.m.
AVDC Update:
PDF ,
PPT
Bojkov (UMBC/GSFC)
10:15 a.m.
Break
Plenary Session
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
10:45 a.m.
Aura validation during the INTEX-B science campaign:
PDF ,
PPT
Singh (Ames)
11:00 a.m.
Continental outflow and intercontinental transport of ozone pollution as determined by O3-CO correlations from TES:
PDF ,
PPT
Zhang (Harvard U.)
11:15 a.m.
Validation and interpretation of OMI near-real-time tropospheric NO2 observations during INTEX-B:
PDF ,
PPT
Boersma (KNMI)
11:30 a.m.
Analysis of the impact of biomass burning on tropospheric ozone using assimilated TES observations and complementary satellite data:
PDF ,
PPT
Jones (U. Toronto)
11:45 a.m.
Mapping isoprene emissions from space using OMI formaldehyde measurements:
PDF ,
PPT
Jacob (Harvard U.)
12:00 p.m.
Contributions of emissions from Indonesia/Australia to the distribution of pollution in the southern tropics during November 2004:
PDF ,
PPT
Bowman (JPL)
12:15 p.m.
Lunch
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Education and Public Outreach Working Group Session
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Aura EPO Review:
PDF ,
PPT
Stockman (SSAI)
Very Fast Delivery products of OMI:
PDF ,
PPT
Hassinen (FMI)
Status of Aura-Sponsored instruments for scientist/teacher/student partnerships:
PDF ,
PPT
Brooks (Drexel U.)
Satellite validation using high-school student data:
PDF ,
PPT
Brinksma (KNMI)
Discussion
All
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Meteorological Products Working Group Session
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
3:00 p.m.
Introduction, Agenda, Previews
Manney (JPL)
3:05 p.m.
NOAA/NCEP analysis/forecast model update:
PDF ,
PPT
Long (NOAA)
3:25 p.m.
GMAO update: GEOS-5:
PDF ,
PPT
Pawson (GSFC)
3:50 p.m.
Data Center products discussion/questions
All
4:00 - 5:00 pm
HIRDLS MP usage update:
PDF ,
PPT
Kinnison (NCAR)
TES MP usage updates:
PDF ,
PPT
Osterman (JPL)
MLS MP usage updates:
PDF
Manney (JPL)
OMI MP usage updates:
PDF ,
PPT
Kroon (KNMI)
Discussion
All
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Radiances/Forward Model Validation Subgroup Session
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:15 p.m.
Introduction
Clough (AER)
1:20 p.m.
Validation of TES Radiances and Forward Model:
PDF ,
PPT
Clough (AER)
1:35 p.m.
Comparison of HIRDLS L1 and L2 data for temperature, O3 and H2O with ECMWF Analyses and Derived Radiance Data:
PDF ,
PPT
Reburn (RAL)
1:50 p.m.
The Aura Validation Experiment: S-HIS Radiance Calibration Validation and Retrieval Products:
PDF ,
PPT
Revercomb (U. Wisconsin)
2:05 p.m.
Validation of TES profiles using radiance closure analysis:
PDF ,
PPT
Shephard (AER)
2:20 p.m.
Discussion
All
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Tropospheric Air Quality Validation Subgroup Session
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:00 p.m.
Objectives
Pickering (GSFC)
1:10 p.m.
Characterization and validation of ozone pollution episodes using Aura measurements and assimilated models:
PDF ,
PPT
Fishman (LaRC)
1:20 p.m.
Aura tropospheric ozone column derived from OMI-MLS measurements:
PDF ,
PPT
Yang (Georgia Tech)
1:30 p.m.
Comparison of Eta/CMAQ and OMI-MLS tropospheric ozone:
PDF ,
PPT
Pickering (GSFC)
1:40 p.m.
Animated space-time analyses of continental US ozone, scales of variation and implications for smog ozone retrieval:
PDF ,
PPT
Chatfield (Ames)
1:50 p.m.
Global measurements of formaldehyde and gloyoxal from OMI:
PDF ,
PPT
Kurosu (Harvard U.)
2:00 p.m.
Use of OMI data assimilation and validation of air quality models in Europe:
PDF ,
PPT
Levelt (KNMI)
2:10 p.m.
Assessing the impact of distant sources of ozone on the Houston area using the RAQMS global chemical model and TES satellite observations: A test case for 23 August 2006:
PDF ,
PPT
Bowman (JPL)
2:20 p.m.
Discussion
All
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Stratospheric Ozone Validation Subgroup Session
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:30 p.m.
HIRDLS Ozone Validation update:
PDF ,
PPT
Nardi (NCAR)
1:45 p.m.
Stratospheric ozone from EOS MLS on Aura: version 1.5 and preliminary version 2 data comparison with satellite, balloon and aircraft:
PDF ,
PPT
Froidevaux (JPL)
2:00 p.m.
EOS MLS Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric ozone validation by sonde measurements:
PDF ,
PPT
Jiang (JPL)
2:12 p.m.
CAFS partial ozone column data for in-flight validation of the Aura ozone product:
PDF ,
PPT
Petropavlovskikh (CU/CIRES)
2:24 p.m.
Intercomparison of a variety of Aura and airborne ozone observations during PAVE:
PDF ,
PPT
Coffey (NCAR)
2:36 p.m.
Discussion
All
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CO Validation Subgroup Session
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
3:00 p.m.
Validation status report: carbon monoxide from MLS in the middle atmosphere:
PDF
Harwood (U. Edinburgh)
3:15 p.m.
Validation of MLS upper tropospheric CO:
PDF
Nathaniel Livesey (JPL)
3:30 p.m.
Discussion on MLS-related CO validation
All
3:40 p.m.
TES CO validation:
PDF ,
PPT
Luo (JPL)
4:00 p.m.
Preliminary comparisons between TES CO and MOPITT pre-V4 CO products:
PDF ,
PPT
Ho (NCAR)
4:15 p.m.
Plans/results for TES/AIRS/MOPITT CO validation:
PDF ,
PPT
Warner (JCET/UMBC)
4:30 p.m.
Assimilation of the CO-sensitive radiances in the CTM: Implications for comparisons between the multi-sensor CO retrievals:
PDF ,
PPT
Yudin (NCAR)
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HNO3 Validation Subgroup Session
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
3:30 p.m.
Introduction
Santee (JPL)
3:35 p.m.
Comparisons between nitric acid measurements from the DC-8 and nitric acid retrievals from MLS and TES during PAVE and INTEX-B:
PDF ,
PPT
Dibb (U. New Hampshire)
3:50 p.m.
Status of the High-Resolution Dynamics Limbs Sounder (HIRDLS) HNO3 data product:
PDF ,
PPT
Kinnison (NCAR)
4:05 p.m.
Retrievals of nitric acid from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Limb-Viewing Mode:
PDF ,
PPT
Kulawik (JPL)
4:20 p.m.
Validation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder HNO3 measurements:
PDF ,
PPT
Santee (JPL)
4:35 p.m.
Discussion
All
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H2O, N2O Validation Subgroup Session
Monday, September 11, 2006
Item
Document
Author
3:00 p.m.
Introduction
Rosenlof (NOAA)
3:05 p.m.
TES comparisons of water vapor with aircraft, AIRS and sondes:
PDF ,
PPT
Herman (JPL)
3:20 p.m.
Intercomparison of the Harvard Lyman-alpha water vapor instrument with the NOAA frostpoint and MLS instruments: Implications of recent results:
PDF ,
PPT
Weinstock (Harvard U.)
3:35 p.m.
Validation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder measurements of nitrous oxide:
PDF
Lambert (JPL)
3:45 p.m.
Validation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder measurements of water vapor:
PDF
Lambert (JPL)
3:55 p.m.
Aura MLS Version 2 H2O and relative humidity retrievals:
PPT
Read (JPL)
4:10 p.m.
Validation of Aura/MLS water vapor observations using the Cryogenic Frostpoint Hygrometer (CFH) and comparisons with the WB57 aircraft water vapor instruments and the Vaisala RS92:
PDF ,
PPT
Vömel (NOAA)
4:25 p.m.
Characteristics and validation of HIRDLS water vapor retrievals:
PPT
Gille (NCAR)
4:40 p.m.
Discussion
All
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Working Group and Validation Subgroup Reports
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Item
Document
Author
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Tropospheric Air Quality Validation Subgroup:
PDF ,
PPT
Pickering (GSFC)
Meteorological Products Working Group:
PDF ,
PPT
Manney (JPL)
Education and Public Outreach Working Group:
PDF ,
PPT
Stockman (SSAI)
Radiances/Forward Model Validation Subgroup:
PDF ,
PPT
Clough (AER)
HNO3 Validation Subgroup:
PDF ,
PPT
Santee (JPL)
H2O, N2O Validation Subgroup:
PDF ,
PPT
Rosenlof (JPL)
CO Validation Subgroup:
PDF ,
PPT
Luo (JPL)
Stratospheric Ozone Validation Subgroup:
PDF ,
PPT
Wang (Georgia Tech)
10:00 a.m.
Break
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Plenary Session
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Item
Document
Author
10:30 a.m.
A Global Modeling Initiative study of long-range cross-tropopause transport of biomass burning pollution using carbon monoxide measurements from Aura:
PDF ,
PPT
Duncan (GSFC)
10:45 a.m.
Aura OMI/MLS measurements of tropospheric ozone from MJO to El Nino timescales: Comparisons with MLS tropospheric H2O and CO:
PDF ,
PPT
Ziemke (GSFC)
11:00 a.m.
Regulation of H2O and CO in tropical tropopause layer by the Madden-Julian Oscillation:
PDF ,
PPT
Wong (Texas A&M)
11:15 a.m.
High horizontal resolution tropospheric ozone residual from MLS and OMI:
PDF ,
PPT
Schoeberl (GSFC)
11:30 a.m.
Spatial patterns in the evolution of ozone and CO as seen by TES, and the effects of the geographically variable a priori> used in the TES retrieval :
PDF ,
PPT
Logan (Harvard U)
11:45 a.m.
Tropospheric ozone and CO monthly mean fields from TES and GEOS-CHEM mode:
PDF ,
PPT
Luo (JPL)
12:00 p.m.
ACE simultaneous upper tropospheric measurements of biomass burning emissions:
PDF ,
PPT
Rinsland (LaRC)
12:15 p.m.
Lunch
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Missions Operations Working Group Session
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:00 p.m.
Introduction
Kelly (GSFC)
1:15 p.m.
EOS Aura Status
Kelly (GSFC)
1:30 p.m.
HIRDLS:
PDF ,
PPT
Craft, Barnett, Hepplewhite
1:50 p.m.
MLS:
PDF ,
PPT
Miller (JPL)
2:10 p.m.
OMIS:
PDF ,
PPT
Claas
2:40 p.m.
TES:
PDF ,
PPT
Murdock
3:00 p.m.
MMS IST redesign and new operations concept
Raytheon
3:40 p.m.
EDOS Update:
PDF ,
PPT
Gomez
4:00 p.m.
SSR Auto Operations Concept:
PDF ,
PPT
Kelly (GSFC)
4:30 p.m.
Summary/Actions/Next Step
All
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Aerosols/Clouds/SO2 Working Group and Validation Subgroup Session
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:30 p.m.
Validation of HIRDLS observations of clouds and aerosols:
PDF ,
PPT
Massie (NCAR)
1:42 p.m.
MLS version 2 cloud ice and validation plan:
PDF ,
PPT
Wu (JPL)
1:54 p.m.
Cross-comparison of Aura MLS and Aqua AIRS cloud measurements:
PDF ,
PPT
Jiang (JPL)
2:06 p.m.
Comparisons of TES retrieved cloud products:
PDF ,
PPT
Eldering (JPL)
2:18 p.m.
Intercomparison of OMI and MODIS deep blue aerosol products:
PDF ,
PPT
Hsu (GSFC)
2:30 p.m.
Information on atmospheric aerosol in OMI measurements :
PDF ,
PPT
Veihelmann (KNMI)
2:42 p.m.
Aerosol optical depths from airborne sun photometry in INTEX-B/MILAGRO as a validation tool for OMI on Aura:
PDF ,
PPT
Livingston (Ames)
2:54 p.m.
Validation of MODIS aerosol observations over the Netherlands with GLOBE student measurements :
PDF ,
PPT
Boersma (KNMI)
3:06 p.m.
NATIVE remotely sensed aerosol optical properties: examples from INTEX-B and WAVES 2006:
PDF ,
PPT
Taubman (Penn State)
3:18 p.m.
The 2006 boreal forest fire season as seen by OMI:
PDF ,
PPT
Torres (GSFC)
3:30 p.m.
OMI aerosol products and validation:
PDF ,
PPT
Braak (KNMI)
3:42 p.m.
Discussion
All
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Radicals Validation Subgroup Session
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:30 p.m.
Ground-based validation of OMI NO2:
PDF ,
PPT
Sander (JPL)
1:43 p.m.
New multifunction differential optical absorption spectroscopy instrument for Aura/OMI validation - Preliminary results for NO2 from INTEX-B:
PDF ,
PPT
Spinei (Washington State U.)
1:56 p.m.
Validation of HIRDLS NO2:
PDF ,
PPT
Randall (U. Colorado)
2:09 p.m.
Global BrO from OMI:
PDF ,
PPT
Kurosu (Harvard U.)
2:22 p.m.
Validation of MLS BrO:
PDF ,
PPT
Kovalenko (JPL)
2:35 p.m.
MLS HOx: Retrieval, calibration and validation:
PDF ,
PPT
Pickett and Canty (JPL)
2:48 p.m.
Discussion
All
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Temperature Validation Subgroup Session
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:30 p.m.
Introduction
Pawson (GSFC)
1:35 p.m.
Validation of HIRDLS temperature:
PDF ,
PPT
Lee (NCAR)
1:50 p.m.
Validation of EOS MLS temperature:
PDF ,
PPT
Schwartz (JPL)
2:05 p.m.
EOS-MLS and NDACC Lidar temperature comparisons over the period September 2004 - July 2006:
PDF ,
PPT
Leblanc (JPL)
2:20 p.m.
Comparisons of TES temperature profiles with aircraft, AIRS and sondes:
PDF ,
PPT
Herman (JPL)
2:35 p.m.
Discussion
All
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Total/Tropospheric Ozone Validation Subgroup Session
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:15 p.m.
OMI Total Ozone using the TOMS V8 algorithm - Status & Plans:
PDF ,
PPT
Bhartia (GSFC)
1:30 p.m.
Overview of recent improvements to the OMDOAO3 algorithm:
PDF ,
PPT
Veefkind (KNMI)
1:40 p.m.
Updated validation results for the column values of ozone measured by TES:
PDF ,
PPT
Osterman (JPL)
1:50 p.m.
A comparison of OMI total column ozone with data from ground stations and from SBUV/2:
PDF ,
PPT
Labow (SSAI)
2:00 p.m.
Validation of OMI ozone columns derived using the DOAS algorithm:
PDF ,
PPT
Balis (Aristotle U.)
2:10 p.m.
Comparing OMI TOMS and OMI DOAS total ozone column estimates:
PDF ,
PPT
Kroon (KNMI)
2:20 p.m.
SAUNA - Sodankylä Total Ozone Intercomparison and Validation Campaign:
PDF ,
PPT
Bojkov (UMBC/GSFC)
2:30 p.m.
Validation of OMI cloud pressure from rotational Raman scattering:
PDF ,
PPT
Joiner (GSFC)
3:00 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
Validation of MLS upper tropospheric ozone observations:
PDF ,
PPT
Livesey (JPL)
3:40 p.m.
A cross-evaluation of tropospheric ozone from Aura OMI/MLS and DIAL Lidar measurements during INTEX-B:
PDF ,
PPT
Ziemke (GSFC)
3:50 p.m.
Validation of TES tropospheric ozone profiles with airborne Lidar observations:
PDF ,
PPT
Richards (JPL)
4:00 p.m.
TES-Ozonesonde comparisons: updates from Costa Rica AVE, ARM-SGP, and IONS:
PDF ,
PPT
Worden (JPL)
4:10 p.m.
Validation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Version 2 ozone profiles:
PDF ,
PPT
Nassar (JPL)
4:20 p.m.
NATIVE ozone column and profiles in INTEX-B/MILAGRO/IONS06 and WAVES 2006: OMI comparisons:
PDF ,
PPT
Michaels (Penn State)
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Poster Session I
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Item
Document
Author
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Update on Giovanni for Aura products:
PDF ,
PPT
Ahmad (GSFC)
Looking at the springtime troposphere and lower stratosphere over the central north Pacific through many pairs of glasses: An INTEX-B case study using an Aura validation science paradigm:
PDF
Avery (LaRC)
Aircraft Laser IR Absorption Spectrometer (ALIAS) measurements of total water, total water isotopes and tracer gases N2O, CH4, and CO
Christensen (LaRC)
MicroMaps CO measurements over North America during July 2004:
PPT
Connors (LaRC)
The Global Modeling Initiative "Combo" CTM - Applications to Analysis of Aura data:
PPT
Douglass (GSFC)
Using satellite measurements from OMI and other Aura instruments to investigate a regional-scale pollution episode:
PPT
Fishman (LaRC)
A tape recorder signal in EOS MLS HCN:
PDF
Harwood (U. Edinburgh)
NO2 observations from a small spectrometer using direct sun technique:
PDF
Herman (GSFC)
Water vapor transport in the UT/LS over Tibetan Plateau/South Asian Monsoon region:
PPT
Hu (Georgia Tech)
Summertime tropospheric ozone columns from Aura OMI/MLS measurements versus regional model results over the United States:
PDF
Jiang (JPL)
Developing a climatology of stratospheric injections from boreal forest fires:
PDF
Jost (KNMI)
TES observations of the North American pollution overflow in summer 2006
Jourdain (JPL)
The new MLS web user interface:
PDF
Knosp (JPL)
Convective influence of the near-tropopause region diagnosed from measurements of water vapor isotopic composition:
PDF
Moyer (Harvard U.)
Comparison of tropospheric ozone columns calculated from MLS, OMI and ozonesonde data:
PPT
Morris (Valparaiso U.)
Tropospheric ozone measurements using differential absorption lidar:
PPT
Newchurch (U. Alabama-Huntsville)
Data for use in validating OMI tropospheric NO2 in regions dominated by lightning NO production:
PPT
Pickering (GSFC)
Observations of condensed phase HNO3 in a tropical subvisual cirrus cloud:
PDF
Popp (NOAA)
The Tropical Tape Recorders of Aura's MLS:
PPT
Schoeberl (GSFC)
Ticosonde observations of waves in the tropical tropopause layer, 2005-2006:
PDF
Selkirk (BAER Institute)
International Polar Year (IPY): A brief report on the proposed POLARCAT mission
Singh (Ames)
New multifunction differential optical absorption spectroscopy instrument for Aura/OMI validation - Preliminary results for NO2 from INTEX-B:
PPT
Spinei (Washington State U.)
HIRDLS - AROTAL Lidar comparisons during INTEX-B:
PPT
Twigg (SSAI)
Estimation of the effects of two-layer clouds and absorbing aerosols on the OMI cloud pressures derived from rotational Raman scattering:
PPT
Vasilkov (SSAI)
Dehydration, cirrus clouds and wave activity in the tropical tropopause layer during the warm and cold tropopause temperature season:
PPT
Vömel (U. Colorado)
A framework for tropospheric CO comparisons between TES and AIRS:
PPT
Warner (JCET/UMBC)
TES observations of the tropical lower troposphere in January 2005 and 2006
Worden (JPL)
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Working Group and Validation Subgroup Reports
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Item
Document
Author
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Mission Operations Working Group:
PDF ,
PPT
Kelly (GSFC)
Aerosol/Cloud/SO2 Working Group and Validation:
PDF ,
PPT
Massie (NCAR)
Temperature Validation:
PDF ,
PPT
Pawson (GSFC)
Total/Tropospheric Ozone Validation:
PDF ,
PPT
Kroon (KNMI) & McPeters (GSFC)
Radicals Validation
PDF ,
PPT
Salawitch (JPL)
10:00 a.m.
Break
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Plenary Session
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Item
Document
Author
10:30 a.m.
MJO in EOS MLS cloud ice and water vapor
Schwartz (JPL)
10:45 a.m.
Hydration of the upper troposphere by tropical storms:
PDF ,
PPT
Ray (NOAA)
11:00 a.m.
Ice supersaturation and its impact on chemistry and climate:
PDF ,
PPT
Gettelman (NCAR)
11:15 a.m.
Observations of deep convective influence on stratospheric water vapor and its isotopic composition:
PDF ,
PPT
Hanisco (Harvard U.)
11:30 a.m.
MLS and AIRS measurements of water vapor and ozone in the subtropical upper troposphere:
PDF ,
PPT
Waugh (Johns Hopkins U.)
11:45 a.m.
Clouds and water vapor in the boreal winter tropical tropopause layer: Results from a trajectory-based microphysical model and comparison with satellite observations:
PDF ,
PPT
Pfister (Ames)
12:00 p.m.
Lunch
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Data Systems Working Group Session
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:30 p.m.
HIRDLS Report:
PDF ,
PPT
Dean (U. Colorado)
1:45 p.m.
MLS Report:
PDF ,
PPT
Cuddy (JPL)
2:00 p.m.
OMI Report:
PDF ,
PPT
Claas (KNMI)
2:15 p.m.
TES Report:
PDF ,
PPT
Shepherd (JPL)
2:30 p.m.
Aura HDF-EOS Guidelines Status: Overview of V2.x:
PDF ,
PPT
Craig (NCAR)
3:00 p.m.
Level 3 Product Specifications in the New Aura Guidelines:
PDF ,
PPT
Wagner (JPL)
3:15 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
GES DISC/S4PA evolution status, testing and documentation:
PDF ,
PPT
Johnson (GSFC)
3:45 p.m.
LaRC/ANGe Status:
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Ferebee (LaRC)
4:00 p.m.
Evolution testing and documentation status:
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Michael (ESDIS)
4:10 p.m.
Toolkit and HDFEOS status and future plans:
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Taaheri (Raytheon)
4:20 p.m.
Discussion
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Chlorine Validation Subgroup Session
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Item
Document
Author
1:30 p.m.
Introduction
Froidevaux (JPL)
1:35 p.m.
Global measurements of stratospheric chlorine dioxide from OMI:
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PPT
Kurosu (Harvard U.)
1:50 p.m.
Discussion: OMI-related chlorine validation plans
All
1:55 p.m.
Validation of the Aura MLS ClO measurements:
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PPT
Santee (JPL)
2:10 p.m.
HCl from EOS MLS on Aura: version 1.5 and preliminary version 2 data comparisons with satellite, balloon, and aircraft data:
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PPT
Froidevaux (JPL)
2:25 p.m.
HOCl from EOS MLS on Aura: Version 1.5 and preliminary version 2 data comparisons with other measurements and models:
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PPT
Froidevaux (JPL)
2:40 p.m.
Discussion: MLS-related chlorine validation plans
All
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Poster Session II
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Item
Document
Author
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Utilization of the Aura HIRDLS spacecraft pitch maneuvers:
PPT
Barnett (Oxford U.)
OMI UV1 residuals for validation:
PPT
Beck (NOAA)
PV-theta mapping of Aura MLS profile data:
PPT
Bender (Valparaiso U.)
Understanding diurnal and seasonal variations in OH and HO2:
PPT
Canty (JPL)
Global HIRDLS observations of CFC 11 and CFC 12 are presented:
PPT
Coffey (NCAR)
Intercomparison of trace-gas observations by Aura instruments with observations by an airborne infrared spectrometer:
PPT
Coffey (NCAR)
Noncoincident validation of Aura MLS observations using the Langley Research Center Lagrangian chemistry and transport model:
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PPT
Considine (LaRC)
Formation of large (50 to 100 micron) ice crystals near the tropical tropopause: Implications for water vapor concentrations:
PDF
Jensen (Ames)
Goddard 3-D chemistry/transport modeling for CR-AVE:
PDF
Kawa (GSFC)
A-Train data depot: Integrating and visualizing atmospheric measurements along the A-Train tracks:
PPT
Kempler (GSFC)
MLS Grid: Development of a system for more efficient data process:
PDF
Knosp (JPL)
Ozone loss by the HOCl catalytic cycle: Do models have it right?
Kovalenko (JPL)
Transport during January/February 2006 stratospheric major warming from Aura MLS and ACE-FTS data:
PDF
Manney (JPL)
Derived meteorological products for solar occultation satellite datasets and applications to Aura validation:
PDF
Manney (JPL)
Variability of OH in the middle and upper stratosphere:
PDF
Minschwaner (New Mexico Tech)
Estimate of stratospheric-tropospheric exchange of ozone derived from MLS observations:
PPT
Olsen (UMBC))
Comparison of the Boulder water vapor record with UARS/HALOE and Aura/MLS observations:
PPT
Oltmans (NOAA)
Interannual variability of entry-level stratospheric water vapor over the Eastern Tropical Pacific during the wintertime:
PDF
Pittman (MSFC)
Observational characteristics of double tropopause:
PPT
Randel (NCAR)
Connecting UARS MLS and Aura MLS upper tropospheric H2O data sets:
PPT
Sandor (SSI)
An automated method of ozonesonde preparation and calibration:
PDF ,
PPT
Schmidlin (GSFC)
Validation of the OMI O2-O2 cloud product with MODIS in the A-train:
PDF
Sneep (KNMI)
IONS06 Variability in UT/LS ozone and implications for Aura ozone retrievals and assimilations products:
PDF
Thompson (Penn State)
Troposphere-to-stratosphere transport mechanisms: Insights from recent measurements on the role of direct convective injection in the stratosphere:
PDF
Weinstock (Harvard U.)
Connecting UARS MLS and Aura MLS upper tropospheric H2O data sets
Wu (JPL)
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TC-4 Information Meeting
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Item
Document
Author
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
TC-4 information meeting:
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Toon (U. Colorado)
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Working Group and Validation Subgroup Reports
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Item
Document
Author
8:30 a.m.
Data Systems Working Group Report:
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PPT
Craig (NCAR)
8:45 p.m.
Chlorine Validation Subgroup Report:
PDF ,
PPT
Froidevaux (JPL)
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Validation Plenary Session
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Item
Document
Author
9:00 a.m.
Surface and TOA cloud forcing from MLS IWC product:
PDF ,
PPT
Feldman (Caltech)
9:15 a.m.
Transport above the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone interred from Aura MKLS tracers:
PDF ,
PPT
Park (NCAR)
9:30 a.m.
The role of Asian monsoon/Tibet convection in stratosphere hydration and creating 'tape recorder' signal:
PDF ,
PPT
Fu (Georgia Tech)
9:45 a.m.
The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission update:
PDF ,
PPT
Walker (U. Toronto)
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.
Intercomparison of total column ozone measurements from OMI(TOMSV8),OMI(DOAS), and MOD(Merged Ozone Dataset):
PDF ,
PPT
Chiou (Adnet)
10:45 a.m.
Aura validation of numerous molecules using FIRS-2 balloon observations:
PDF ,
PPT
Jucks (Harvard U.)
11:00 a.m.
Overview of NO2 column validation:
PDF ,
PPT
Gleason (GSFC)
11:15 a.m.
Assimilation of TES observations for the analysis of processes governing the chemistry of the troposphere:
PDF ,
PPT
Parrington (U. Toronto)
11:30 a.m.
Submillimeterwave Limb Sounder observations for Aura validation:
PDF
Stachnik (JPL)
11:45 a.m.
Aura validation buy the balloon-borne MkIV interferometer:
PDF ,
PPT
Toon (JPL)
12:00 p.m.
Validation results from the Joint ESA KNMI NIVR Calibration and Validation Announcement of Opportunity for Ozone Mapping:
PDF ,
PPT
Kroon (KNMI)
12:15 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Comparison between HIRDLS and MIPAS radiances and key retrieved species:
PDF ,
PPT
Waymark (Oxford U.)
1:45 p.m.
Water Vapor Validation Experiment - Satellite/Sondes: Overview and preliminary results:
PDF ,
PPT
Whiteman (GSFC)
2:00 p.m.
Validation of OMI products using data collected during INTEX-B:
PDF ,
PPT
Labow (SSAI)
2:15 p.m.
Ozone and temperature profile comparisons between Aura MNLS and NCEP global data assimilation systems:
PDF ,
PPT
Zhou (NOAA)
2:30 p.m.
First results of the OMI ozone profile:
PDF ,
PPT
deHaan (KNMI)
2:45 p.m.
Discussion
Schoeberl (GSFC)
3:15 p.m.
POSTER SESSION II continued
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Plenary Session
Friday, September 15, 2006
Item
Document
Author
8:30 a.m.
Comparison of lower stratospheric ozone, as modeled by MIMOSA-CHIM and observed by EOS MLS over the period September 2004 - May 2005:
PDF
Tripathi (JPL)
8:45 a.m.
Simulations of Atmospheric composition using GEOS-4: Evaluation with EOS Aura data:
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PPT
Benson (UMBC)
9:00 a.m.
New insights into volcanic degassing from OMI and the A-train:
PDF ,
PPT
Carn (JCET/UMBC)
9:15 a.m.
Equatorial wave activities in HIRDLS temperature
Lee (NCAR)
9:30 a.m.
The influence of convection and midlatitude air on the water vapor and isotopic composition of the upper TTL and tropical stratosphere:
PDF
Sayres (Harvard U.)
9:45 a.m.
Tropospheric ozone from assimilation of Aura data using different definitions of the tropopause:
PDF ,
PPT
Stajner (GSFC)
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.
The Iris Hypothesis revisited: Analysis of upper tropospheric cloud variations with sea surface temperature using Aura-MLS and Aqua-AIRS observations
Su (JPL)
10:45 a.m.
Improved tropospheric ozone profiles using OMI and TES radiances:
PDF ,
PPT
Worden (JPL)
11:00 a.m.
Issues, next meeting, other discussion
Schoeberl (GSFC)
Adjourn
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