ORACLES Science Meeting

June 23-25, 2016

Building N232 room 103, Moffett Field, CA

ThursdayJune 23: Overview and Payload capabilities

Morning: Science objectives – unanswered questions. Project overviews.

8:00-8:30 Coffee, informal introductionsAll

8:30-8:40WelcomeBicay

8:40-9:00 Science objectives – DIRECT EFFECTSRedemann

9:00-9:20 Science objectives – AEROSOL HEATINGZuidema

9:20-9:40 Science objectives – INDIRECT EFFECTSWood

9:40-10:00 Coffee BreakAll

10:00-10:20UpdatesonORACLESRedemann/Luna

10:20-10:40 Updates onCLARIFYHaywood

10:40-11:00Updates onLASICZuidema

11:00-11:30Namibian Research interests Knox

11:30- 1:00lunch (1.5 hr) - to Ames cafeteria or other

Afternoon: Logistics and instrument status updates -

1:00-1:50 Logistics overviewLuna

1:50 P3 instruments (Status updates,current issues, specifics of ideal flight plans and maneuvers)

1:50 P-3 facility measurements (15)Van Gilst

2:05Cloud (15)McFarquhar

2:20HIGEAR (15)Howell

2:35PDI (10)Small

2:45CCN (10)Nenes

Break 2:55-3:30final dinner count

3:30 PTI(10)Sedlacek

3:40 APR3(10)Tanelli

3:50SSFR (10)Pilewskie

4:00COMA (10)Podolske

4:10AMPR (10)Lang

4:204STAR (10)LeBlanc

4:30 PICARRO (10)Noone

4:40P-3 (25)Valliant

5:05 Aeronet (15)Holben

5:20Preview of tomorrow, adjourn for todayRedemann

Friday Jun 24: Aircraft, Coordination, Modeling, Logistics and Capacity Building

8:00-8:30 Project Management & LogisticsLuna

[during Coffee, lunch order process, collect/display posters]All

Morning: AEROCLO-SA, ER-2 and Modelers.

8:30-9:00 Updates onAEROCLO-sA and SEALS-sAFormenti

9:00 –10:15 ER2 (1:15 total)

• eMAS (10)Platnick

• HSRL2 (10)Hostetler

• RSP (10)Cairns

• AirMSPI (10)Diner

• SSFR (10)Pilewskie

• ER-2 (25)Thomsonw

10:15 - 11:00 Coffee break & poster viewing

11:00 – 11:45 Measurement and flight needs from modeling groups

11:00 Modeling – global (15)DaSilva

11:15 Modeling – WRF-Chem (15)Saide

11:30 Modeling - LES (15)Ackerman

11:45-1:00 Lunch (Specialty’s) -tables outside or breezeway or room 103

1:00-3:30 Deployment and flight planning

1:00 Meteorological and satellite data in the field (20)Pfister

1:20 Recap from dry-run and discussion (20)Pfister/Wood

1:40Updated Flight plans/module/score cards (40)Wood/all

2:20 Routine flight plans (20)Howell/Wood/Redemann

2:40Flight operations – a day in the life of ORACLES (10)Redemann

2:50 Flight operations – in-flight decision-making (20)Redemann

3:10Flight ops tools: everybody set up MTS config (20)???Pfister/Redemann

3:30 - 5:20Coffee break and Poster sessionbreezeway

5:20 regroup; preview of tomorrow; adjournRedemann

Dinner on your own

Saturday Jun 25:Flight Planning

8:00 - 10:30 Detailed Flight Planning All

Flight Planning tools / distribution / usersRedemann/LeBlanc

Flight Planning discussion (30-45 mins for each objective)All

  • Desirable conditions
  • Available data sources (OMI AI, MODIS AOD, SEVIRI, Meyer AAC AOD)
  • Refining useful flight modules
  • Assessing degree of success in scorecards

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 11:30 Coordination and flight monitoring with partners

Coordination with CLARIFYHaywood

Coordination with AEROCLO-SAFormenti

Coordination with Namibian Research interests Knox

11:30 Data Management (15)Shinozuka

11:45 - noon Open topics and wrap-upAll

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