MONDAY SEPT 16
8:15 AM Assemble
8:30 AM Ken Jucks update from HQ on ASCENDS, NASA Earth Science, outlook, etc.
8:45 AM - Modeling group updates: Discussions after each set: Take aways, Where are the in-consistencies, where are the holes, work still needed?
a. Updates/summaries of OSSE model results (20 min each) (~2 hours)
The object is to express the main findings of these activities as planned for the white paper.
- CO2 Flux Inversion Error Analyses for ASCENDS – David Baker
- A Summary of Contributions from Colorado State University to the ASCENDS whitepaper – Andrew Schuh
- Information Content Analyses of Potential ASCENDS Observations – Sean Crowell
- OU/Melbourne Modeling Efforts: Status and Glimpses into the Future – Sean Crowell
- ASCENDS Regional OSSE Carnegie-Stanford Update – Yoishi Shiga
- A Regional CO2 Observing System Simulation Experiment for the ASCENDS Mission Using WRF-STILT Footprints – James Wang
- Signal detection for the ASCENDS mission – Randy Kawa and Dorit Hammering
b. Projected/Modeled Ascends benefits relative to GOSAT and projected OCO-2 (~45 m)
c. Need for /benefit from O2 measurements on ASCENDS, Overview of Meteorological Uncertainty Estimates in Support of ASCENDS – Lesley Ott (~ 30 min)
NOON –LUNCH
1 pm –Measurement Group Updates
a. Current Space Measurement Requirements & Rationale (45 min) - Gary Spiers & Jim Abshire
b. Summary of measurement demos from ASCENDS airborne campaign & other work (CO2 & O2 results, relevance to ASCENDS, space scaling etc.)
- LaRC update on CO2 & O2 MFFL lidar – Bing Lin/Wallace Harrison (45 min)
- CO2 & O2 Sounder – Jim Abshire (45 min)
- JPL CO2 LAS – Gary Spiers (30 min)
- Broadband CO2 lidar – Bill Heaps (15 min)
- Pulsed 2 um CO2 lidar – Upendra Singh (15 min)
Discussions after each set: Take aways, Where are the in-consistencies & holes, work still needed?
Summary discussion on measurements (30 min)
TUESDAY Sept 17
Morning – (B34, W120A&B)
a. Modeling group – Summary, core results, discussion of inconsistencies and holes, plan to complete 2013 work
b. Measurement group –Summary, core results, discussion of inconsistencies and holes, plan to complete 2013 work
c. PACE Requirement Discussion
Documents
a. Ascope Mission ESA Report
b. Pre‐Aerosol, Clouds, and Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Mission Science Definition Team Report
c. Program-Level Requirements for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory – 2 Project
NOON –LUNCH
Afternoon – (B34, W120A&B)
a. Planning to get to Nov meeting (w/draft doc) for Modeling and Measurement groups
b. Next steps; Assignments for sections, plots, tables & text
c. Meeting summary
NOTES & MEETING SUMMARY
Notes and Summary from ASCENDS September 2013 Formulation Team Meeting
