**************************************************************************** ************************************************************* 7th SABER Science Team Meeting November 16-18, 1999 Marine Sciences Building, Room 104 Hampton University Hampton, Virginia Preliminary Agenda Tuesday, November 16, 1999 Time Item Lead 9:00 - 9:15 Introduction, logistics, and adoption of agenda Russell 9:15 - 10:00 SABER instrument progress, status and plans MIller 10:00 -10:15 TIMED status, schedule, and plans Miller 10:15 -10:45 Instrument calibration results Tansock 10:45 -11:00 BREAK 11:00 - 11:30 Instrument calibration results continued Tansock 11:30 - 12:30 Instrument calibration data analysis and science Gordley impact 12:30 -1:30 LUNCH 1:30 -2:00 Flight operations update and plans Wells, Grube 2:00 - 2:30 Level 1 and 2 data file description update and Gordley data base management approach (Action Items #27 and 28) 2:30 - 3:00 Data access system description Burton 3:00 - 3:15 BREAK 3:15 - 3:45 Criteria to use for placing flags in data file headers Winick defining, day, night, and twilight (Action Item #26) 3:45 - 4:15 Ways to distinguish when auroral effects are present Winick, Espy in SABER data (Action Item #38) 4:15 - 5:15 Overview of data products, retrieval approaches, Mlynczak retrieval process flow, and required inputs for each data product 5:15 ADJOURN Wednesday, November 17, 1999 Time Item Lead 8:30 - 9:30 Operational temperature retrieval progress and plans Mertens 9:30 -10:30 Daytime CO2 model comparisons(Action Item #20) Wintersteiner, Mertens, Lopez-Puertas 10:30 - 10:45 BREAK 10:45 - 11:15 O(1D) profiles for us in the CO2 4.3 mm model Picard 11:15 - 11:45 Review of H2O non-LTE model with emphasis on Lopez-Puertas O2(n) 11:45 - 12:15 Overview of operational H2O retrieval and status Mertens, Eden 12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH 1:15 - 1:45 Status and road map for other routine and analysis Mertens, Mlynczak products. 1:45 - 2:15 Discussion of solar spectra in retrieval codes Mlynczak 2:15 - 2:45 Discussion of algorithm papers Mlynczak 2:45 - 3:15 Research codes: what are they, when and how will Picard they be used, and who will use them 3:15- 3:45 BREAK 3:45 - 4:00 Continue discussion of research codes Picard 4:00 - 4:30 Kinetics and spectroscopy updates Mlynczak, Picard 4:30 -5:30 LIMS reprocessing lessons learned for SABER Thompson,Remsberg 5:30 ADJOURN 7:00 Dutch Treat Dinner Thursday, November 18, 1999 Time Item Lead 8:30 - 9:00 ICON rocket flight overview and relevance to Espy SABER 9:00 - 9:30 SABER Data Validation Plan overview Remsberg 9:30 -10:30 Data validation items Ground-based strategy Espy British Antarctic Survey facilities Espy MINRAD rocket program Ulwick Response to CEDAR and SPA E-mail announcing Russell SABER validation needs 10:30 - 10:45 BREAK 10:45 - 11:45 Science presentations Derivation of meridonal circulations Mlynczak AGU Special Session on energetics Others? 11:45 - 12:15 Summary of action items and future plans Russell 12:15 ADJOURN **************************************************************************** **** SABER Old Action Items Open Item Responsibility Item Due No. 5 All Make reccomendations on internal data consistencey 6/98 studies needed for data validation. 6 All Provide suggestions on ground-based, balloon, 6/98 airborne, and satellite correlative data opportunities and investigator contacts to be used for a SABER mail solicitation. 10 Mertens, Evaluate impact of CO2 vmr uncertainty on the Tk 2/99 Puertas, AFRL, retrieval. Wintersteiner . 18 Garcia Develop a SABER/ground-based observational 2/99 strategy and data use scenarios to provide a maximum scientific return. 19 Remsberg, Develop a first draft SABER data validation plan. 6/99 Russell 20 Puertas, Perform comparison studies of the 4.3 mm CO2 6/99 Wintersteiner Tv calculated using the ARC and IAA codes. 25 Baker Reevaluate the instrument response when gains are 2/99 switched to insure that any signal instability in the electronics is handleed properly. 26 Winick Develop criteria to define day, night, and twilight 6/99 conditions for use in data file headers for data sorting and science studies. 27 Gordley Update description of Level 1 and 2 file contents 4/99 and circulate to the team for review and comment. 28 Gordley Propose a data base management approach for access 6/99 to data subsets to be used in science studies. Item Responsibility Item Due No. 29 Russell Initiate dialog with TIMED PIs on common data format 6/99 issues and ways to use the entire TIMED data set in an efficient manner. Obtain definitive measured parameter lists and altitude ranges for TIDI and GUVI. 31 Russell, Prepare a validation needs note and send to the CEDAR 6/99 Remsberg and SPA community e-mail list server. SABER Action Items from the 6th Science Team Meeting, AFRL, Bedford, MA 36 Wintersteiner, Conduct studies to determine if additional bands not 8/15/99 Puertas now included in the CO2N operational Tk retrieval code can be modeled assuming LTE for Z * 75 km 37 Puertas, Picard, Develop an approach for using "research" algorithms 11/99 Wintersteiner, to validate flight retrieval results. Agree on assignments Winick, Mertens of channels each group will validate 38 Winick Perform a quantitative studies to determine if the auroral 11/99 signatures in the O3 and H2O channels at Z * 100 km will have enough signal to be used as auroral flags