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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:   PDFPPT Gille (NCAR)/Barnett (Oxford U.)
9:15 a.m. MLS Overview:   PDFPPT Livesey (JPL)
9:30 a.m. OMI Overview:   PDFPPT Levelt (KNMI)
9:45 a.m. TES Overview:   PDFPPT Beer (JPL)
10:00 a.m. AVDC Update:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Singh (Ames)
11:00 a.m. Continental outflow and intercontinental transport of ozone pollution as determined by O3-CO correlations from TES:   PDFPPT Zhang (Harvard U.)
11:15 a.m. Validation and interpretation of OMI near-real-time tropospheric NO2 observations during INTEX-B:   PDFPPT Boersma (KNMI)
11:30 a.m. Analysis of the impact of biomass burning on tropospheric ozone using assimilated TES observations and complementary satellite data:   PDFPPT Jones (U. Toronto)
11:45 a.m. Mapping isoprene emissions from space using OMI formaldehyde measurements:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Stockman (SSAI)

Very Fast Delivery products of OMI:   PDFPPT Hassinen (FMI)

Status of Aura-Sponsored instruments for scientist/teacher/student partnerships:   PDFPPT Brooks (Drexel U.)

Satellite validation using high-school student data:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Long (NOAA)
3:25 p.m. GMAO update: GEOS-5:   PDFPPT Pawson (GSFC)
3:50 p.m. Data Center products discussion/questions All
4:00 - 5:00 pm HIRDLS MP usage update:   PDFPPT Kinnison (NCAR)

TES MP usage updates:   PDFPPT Osterman (JPL)

MLS MP usage updates:   PDF Manney (JPL)

OMI MP usage updates:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Reburn (RAL)
1:50 p.m. The Aura Validation Experiment: S-HIS Radiance Calibration Validation and Retrieval Products:   PDFPPT Revercomb (U. Wisconsin)
2:05 p.m. Validation of TES profiles using radiance closure analysis:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Fishman (LaRC)
1:20 p.m. Aura tropospheric ozone column derived from OMI-MLS measurements:   PDFPPT Yang (Georgia Tech)
1:30 p.m. Comparison of Eta/CMAQ and OMI-MLS tropospheric ozone:   PDFPPT Pickering (GSFC)
1:40 p.m. Animated space-time analyses of continental US ozone, scales of variation and implications for smog ozone retrieval:   PDFPPT Chatfield (Ames)
1:50 p.m. Global measurements of formaldehyde and gloyoxal from OMI:   PDFPPT Kurosu (Harvard U.)
2:00 p.m. Use of OMI data assimilation and validation of air quality models in Europe:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Froidevaux (JPL)
2:00 p.m. EOS MLS Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric ozone validation by sonde measurements:   PDFPPT Jiang (JPL)
2:12 p.m. CAFS partial ozone column data for in-flight validation of the Aura ozone product:   PDFPPT Petropavlovskikh (CU/CIRES)
2:24 p.m. Intercomparison of a variety of Aura and airborne ozone observations during PAVE:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Luo (JPL)
4:00 p.m. Preliminary comparisons between TES CO and MOPITT pre-V4 CO products:   PDFPPT Ho (NCAR)
4:15 p.m. Plans/results for TES/AIRS/MOPITT CO validation:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Dibb (U. New Hampshire)
3:50 p.m. Status of the High-Resolution Dynamics Limbs Sounder (HIRDLS) HNO3 data product:   PDFPPT Kinnison (NCAR)
4:05 p.m. Retrievals of nitric acid from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Limb-Viewing Mode:   PDFPPT Kulawik (JPL)
4:20 p.m. Validation of the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder HNO3 measurements:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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: PDFPPT Pickering (GSFC)

Meteorological Products Working Group: PDFPPT Manney (JPL)

Education and Public Outreach Working Group: PDFPPT Stockman (SSAI)

Radiances/Forward Model Validation Subgroup: PDFPPT Clough (AER)

HNO3 Validation Subgroup: PDFPPT Santee (JPL)

H2O, N2O Validation Subgroup: PDFPPT Rosenlof (JPL)

CO Validation Subgroup: PDFPPT Luo (JPL)

Stratospheric Ozone Validation Subgroup: PDFPPT 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: PDFPPT 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: PDFPPT Ziemke (GSFC)
11:00 a.m. Regulation of H2O and CO in tropical tropopause layer by the Madden-Julian Oscillation: PDFPPT Wong (Texas A&M)
11:15 a.m. High horizontal resolution tropospheric ozone residual from MLS and OMI: PDFPPT 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 : PDFPPT Logan (Harvard U)
11:45 a.m. Tropospheric ozone and CO monthly mean fields from TES and GEOS-CHEM mode: PDFPPT Luo (JPL)
12:00 p.m. ACE simultaneous upper tropospheric measurements of biomass burning emissions: PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Craft, Barnett, Hepplewhite
1:50 p.m. MLS:   PDFPPT Miller (JPL)
2:10 p.m. OMIS:   PDFPPT Claas
2:40 p.m. TES:   PDFPPT Murdock
3:00 p.m. MMS IST redesign and new operations concept Raytheon
3:40 p.m. EDOS Update:   PDFPPT Gomez
4:00 p.m. SSR Auto Operations Concept:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Massie (NCAR)
1:42 p.m. MLS version 2 cloud ice and validation plan:   PDFPPT Wu (JPL)
1:54 p.m. Cross-comparison of Aura MLS and Aqua AIRS cloud measurements:   PDFPPT Jiang (JPL)
2:06 p.m. Comparisons of TES retrieved cloud products:   PDFPPT Eldering (JPL)
2:18 p.m. Intercomparison of OMI and MODIS deep blue aerosol products:   PDFPPT Hsu (GSFC)
2:30 p.m. Information on atmospheric aerosol in OMI measurements :   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Livingston (Ames)
2:54 p.m. Validation of MODIS aerosol observations over the Netherlands with GLOBE student measurements :   PDFPPT Boersma (KNMI)
3:06 p.m. NATIVE remotely sensed aerosol optical properties: examples from INTEX-B and WAVES 2006:   PDFPPT Taubman (Penn State)
3:18 p.m. The 2006 boreal forest fire season as seen by OMI:   PDFPPT Torres (GSFC)
3:30 p.m. OMI aerosol products and validation:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Sander (JPL)
1:43 p.m. New multifunction differential optical absorption spectroscopy instrument for Aura/OMI validation - Preliminary results for NO2 from INTEX-B:   PDFPPT Spinei (Washington State U.)
1:56 p.m. Validation of HIRDLS NO2:   PDFPPT Randall (U. Colorado)
2:09 p.m. Global BrO from OMI:   PDFPPT Kurosu (Harvard U.)
2:22 p.m. Validation of MLS BrO:   PDFPPT Kovalenko (JPL)
2:35 p.m. MLS HOx: Retrieval, calibration and validation:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Lee (NCAR)
1:50 p.m. Validation of EOS MLS temperature:   PDFPPT Schwartz (JPL)
2:05 p.m. EOS-MLS and NDACC Lidar temperature comparisons over the period September 2004 - July 2006:   PDFPPT Leblanc (JPL)
2:20 p.m. Comparisons of TES temperature profiles with aircraft, AIRS and sondes:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Bhartia (GSFC)
1:30 p.m. Overview of recent improvements to the OMDOAO3 algorithm:   PDFPPT Veefkind (KNMI)
1:40 p.m. Updated validation results for the column values of ozone measured by TES:   PDFPPT Osterman (JPL)
1:50 p.m. A comparison of OMI total column ozone with data from ground stations and from SBUV/2:   PDFPPT Labow (SSAI)
2:00 p.m. Validation of OMI ozone columns derived using the DOAS algorithm:   PDFPPT Balis (Aristotle U.)
2:10 p.m. Comparing OMI TOMS and OMI DOAS total ozone column estimates:   PDFPPT Kroon (KNMI)
2:20 p.m. SAUNA - Sodankylä Total Ozone Intercomparison and Validation Campaign:   PDFPPT Bojkov (UMBC/GSFC)
2:30 p.m. Validation of OMI cloud pressure from rotational Raman scattering:   PDFPPT Joiner (GSFC)
3:00 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Validation of MLS upper tropospheric ozone observations:   PDFPPT Livesey (JPL)
3:40 p.m. A cross-evaluation of tropospheric ozone from Aura OMI/MLS and DIAL Lidar measurements during INTEX-B:   PDFPPT Ziemke (GSFC)
3:50 p.m. Validation of TES tropospheric ozone profiles with airborne Lidar observations:   PDFPPT Richards (JPL)
4:00 p.m. TES-Ozonesonde comparisons: updates from Costa Rica AVE, ARM-SGP, and IONS:   PDFPPT Worden (JPL)
4:10 p.m. Validation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Version 2 ozone profiles:   PDFPPT Nassar (JPL)
4:20 p.m. NATIVE ozone column and profiles in INTEX-B/MILAGRO/IONS06 and WAVES 2006: OMI comparisons:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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: PDFPPT Kelly (GSFC)

Aerosol/Cloud/SO2 Working Group and Validation: PDFPPT Massie (NCAR)

Temperature Validation: PDFPPT Pawson (GSFC)

Total/Tropospheric Ozone Validation: PDFPPT Kroon (KNMI) & McPeters (GSFC)

Radicals Validation PDFPPT 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: PDFPPT Ray (NOAA)
11:00 a.m. Ice supersaturation and its impact on chemistry and climate: PDFPPT Gettelman (NCAR)
11:15 a.m. Observations of deep convective influence on stratospheric water vapor and its isotopic composition: PDFPPT Hanisco (Harvard U.)
11:30 a.m. MLS and AIRS measurements of water vapor and ozone in the subtropical upper troposphere: PDFPPT 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: PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Dean (U. Colorado)
1:45 p.m. MLS Report:   PDFPPT Cuddy (JPL)
2:00 p.m. OMI Report:   PDFPPT Claas (KNMI)
2:15 p.m. TES Report:   PDFPPT Shepherd (JPL)
2:30 p.m. Aura HDF-EOS Guidelines Status: Overview of V2.x:   PDFPPT Craig (NCAR)
3:00 p.m. Level 3 Product Specifications in the New Aura Guidelines:   PDFPPT Wagner (JPL)
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. GES DISC/S4PA evolution status, testing and documentation:   PDFPPT Johnson (GSFC)
3:45 p.m. LaRC/ANGe Status:   PDFPPT Ferebee (LaRC)
4:00 p.m. Evolution testing and documentation status:   PDFPPT Michael (ESDIS)
4:10 p.m. Toolkit and HDFEOS status and future plans:   PDFPPT Taaheri (Raytheon)
4:20 p.m. Discussion All

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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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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: PDFPPT Craig (NCAR)
8:45 p.m. Chlorine Validation Subgroup Report: PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Feldman (Caltech)
9:15 a.m. Transport above the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone interred from Aura MKLS tracers:   PDFPPT Park (NCAR)
9:30 a.m. The role of Asian monsoon/Tibet convection in stratosphere hydration and creating 'tape recorder' signal:   PDFPPT Fu (Georgia Tech)
9:45 a.m. The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission update:   PDFPPT 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):   PDFPPT Chiou (Adnet)
10:45 a.m. Aura validation of numerous molecules using FIRS-2 balloon observations:   PDFPPT Jucks (Harvard U.)
11:00 a.m. Overview of NO2 column validation:   PDFPPT Gleason (GSFC)
11:15 a.m. Assimilation of TES observations for the analysis of processes governing the chemistry of the troposphere:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Toon (JPL)
12:00 p.m. Validation results from the Joint ESA KNMI NIVR Calibration and Validation Announcement of Opportunity for Ozone Mapping:   PDFPPT Kroon (KNMI)
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Comparison between HIRDLS and MIPAS radiances and key retrieved species:   PDFPPT Waymark (Oxford U.)
1:45 p.m. Water Vapor Validation Experiment - Satellite/Sondes: Overview and preliminary results:   PDFPPT Whiteman (GSFC)
2:00 p.m. Validation of OMI products using data collected during INTEX-B:   PDFPPT Labow (SSAI)
2:15 p.m. Ozone and temperature profile comparisons between Aura MNLS and NCEP global data assimilation systems:   PDFPPT Zhou (NOAA)
2:30 p.m. First results of the OMI ozone profile:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Benson (UMBC)
9:00 a.m. New insights into volcanic degassing from OMI and the A-train:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT 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:   PDFPPT Worden (JPL)
11:00 a.m. Issues, next meeting, other discussion Schoeberl (GSFC)
Adjourn

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