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ASCENDS 2011 Workshop Agenda
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Monday, 18 April 2011
08:00–09:00 Process Entry at NASA Goddard, Registration, and Coffee
09:00–09:30 Welcome; Logistics, Comments on Prior Workshops, Including Previous Scientific Questions and Priorities, and Goals of this Workshop – A Plan to Establish Level-One Requirements Kenneth Jucks, David Crisp, and Berrien Moore
 [ppt1] , [ppt2]
09:30–10:45 Airborne Campaigns To-Date
Overview and Brief Sketch of 2011 Plans Ed Browell [ppt]
LaRC/ITT Ed Browell [ppt]
GSFC Jim Abshire [ppt, pdf]
10:45–11:05 Break
11:05–11:30 Airborne Campaigns To-Date (continued)
JPL Bob Menzies [ppt]
11:30–12:00 ASCENDS Mission Concept Studies
LaRC/JPL/GSFC Wallace Harrison [ppt]
12:00–13:15 Lunch  
13:15–14:15 Inputs and Considerations for Initial Mission Simulations
Overview - Strategy, generic errors, random errors vs. bias errors, dry-air issues Jim Abshire [ppt]
Global Aerosol/Cloud Characteristics, and Surface Reflectance Ed Browell [ppt]
Sensitivity Analysis, Measurement Precision, and Scaling Approach Jim Abshire
Weighting Functions Ed Browell [ppt]
14:15–15:00 OSSE Studies for A-Scope Gerhard Ehret [ppt]
15:00–15:30 Break  
15:30–16:15 Mission Simulation for Random Errors:
CO2 Mixing Ratio		 Peter Rayner [pdf]
Randy Kawa [ppt]
16:15–17:30 Mission Simulation Roundtable Discussion:
Issues and Needed Experiments

Scott Zaccheo (Moderator)
Jim Abshire
Ed Browell
Randy Kawa
Bob Menzies
Peter Rayner
17:30–18:00 Open Discussion on Issues from the Day:
Needed Actions and Commitments		 Kenneth Jucks, David Crisp,
and Berrien Moore

 

Tuesday, 19 April 2011
08:00–08:30 Process Entry at NASA Goddard and Coffee
08:30–09:00 Recap of Yesterday and Refinement of Actions/Support Kenneth Jucks and David Crisp [ppt]
09:00–09:30 Assimilations and Inversions from Simulated Measurements:
Issues, Approaches, and Value		 Anna Michalak [ppt]
09:30–10:00 Assimilations and Inversions from Simulated Measurements:
Issues, Approaches, and Value		 Open Discussion
10:00–10:30 Assimilations and Inversions from Simulated Measurements of CO2 Mixing
Ratio: A Pro-Typical Example		 David Baker [ppt]
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–11:30 Assimilations and Inversions from Simulated Measurements of CO2 Mixing
Ratio: A Pro-Typical Example		 Peter Rayner [pdf]
11:30–12:00 Assimilations and Inversions from Simulated Measurements of CO2 Mixing
Ratio: A Pro-Typical Example		 Scott Denning [ppt]
11:30–12:00 ASCENDS Mission Concept Studies
LaRC/JPL/GSFC Wallace Harrison
12:00–13:15 Lunch  
13:15–13:45 Assimilations and Inversions from Simulated Measurements of CO2 Mixing
Ratio: A Pro-Typical Example		 Randy Kawa [ppt]
13:45–14:15 Assimilations and Inversions from Simulated Measurements of CO2 Mixing
Ratio: A Pro-Typical Example		 Anna Michalak [ppt]
Janusz Eluszkiewicz [ppt]
14:15–15:15 Setting the Stage for the Next Round of OSSEs – Important Issues, Including Nonrandom Errors, Biases, Space-Scale Correlations (Posing Problems for the Square Root of N), and Other Topics
Measurement Bias Considerations and Error Budgets Bob Menzies [ppt]
Space-Scale Correlations David Baker [ppt]
Dry-Air Weighting Functions and Other Issues Ed Browell [ppt]
15:15–15:45
 Break  
15:45–16:45

Roundtable Discussion: How to Define and Include Bias Considerations in
Future OSSEs and Other OSSE topics

  • Potential bias errors from the environment (i.e., atmosphere, scattering,
    WV, spectroscopy, etc.)
  • Potential bias errors from the instrument (i.e., offsets, nonlinearities, orbitor angle-dependent effects)
  • What is the easiest way to adapt our emerging "random error simulation
    capability" to assess these?
  • Dry-Air Mass Calculations
  • What are the appropriate approaches to determine “how small do the bias
    errors need to be” to address the/other different candidate science
    questions? Finally, and importantly, target dates in CY11, to complete
    various aspects of OSSE studies.
 David Crisp (Moderator), Berrien Moore (Moderator); Jim Abshire, David Baker, Ed Browell, Anna Michalak,
Bob Menzies, Peter Rayner
16:15–17:30 Next Steps and Schedule for Simulations with Nonrandom Errors: An Open
Discussion Led

Jim Abshire
Ed Browell
Bob Menzies
17:30–18:00 Setting the Stage for Tomorrow: Defining Actions Kenneth Jucks, David Crisp, and Berrien Moore
[pdf , ppt]

 

Wednesday, 20 April 2011 (see also NOTES)
08:00–08:30 Process Entry at NASA Goddard and Coffee
08:30–09:00 Recap of Yesterday and Refinement of Actions/Support Kenneth Jucks, David Crisp,
and Berrien Moore
[ppt]
09:00–09:30 Open Discussion  
09:30–10:45 Specific Actions, Timetable, and Commitments Kenneth Jucks, David Crisp,
and Berrien Moore
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–12:00 Specific Actions, Timetable, and Commitments (continued) Kenneth Jucks, David Crisp,
and Berrien Moore
12:00 Adjourn
12:00–13:30 Steering Group Working Lunch


NOTES from Wednesday
  Response to "What will requirements look like? Ken Davis [rtf] 
  Edits to: "Setting the Stage for Tomorrow: Defining Actions" Berrien Moore [docx]
  Wrap-up Notes Ed Baker [docx]
  Suggestions Jim Abshire [ppt]

 

 
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