TES Winter ’09 Science Team Meeting

February 23rd – 25th

NCAR Foothills Laboratory in Boulder, CO

 

Monday, February 23, 2009

 

TIME

TOPIC

LEAD

9 -10:40

Satellite status, algorithm, and validation updates

John Worden, Chair

Cleared JPL Doc Review?

 

Welcome and TES status

Reinhard Beer

 

 

Aura Overview

Mark Schoeberl, Joanna Joiner

 

 

View from Head Quarters

Jay Al-Saadi

 

 

Ground System status

Doug Shepard

 

 

Senior Review

Annmarie Eldering

 

 

Validation Status

Gregory Osterman

yes

 

TES Forward Model Updates: Implications for TES products

Vivienne H Payne

n/a

10:40 -11

Break

11–11:20

Validation (cont) and New Products

Mark Shephard, Chair

 

Validation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) nadir stare ozone profiles using ozonesonde measurements during Arctic Research on the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS)

Chris Boxe

yes

 

TES Methane: Recent Validations and Comparisons

Vivienne H Payne

n/a

 

Carbon Dioxide from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer

Susan Kulawik

yes

 

TES Additional Species Retrievals: Focusing on Ammonia

Karen Cady-Pereira

n/a

12:20-2

Lunch

2-3:40

Air Quality Session

Ming Luo, Chair

 

Inverse Modeling of NH3 Emissions

Daven Henze

n/a

 

The impact of the assimilation of ozone data from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer on surface ozone across North America

Mark Parrington

n/a

 

California fires case study during ARCTAS-CA

Greg Osterman

yes

 

Perspective on atmospheric chemistry over North America and the western Atlantic during the summertime using satellite remote sensing data

Yunsoo Choi

 

 

Multi-satellite and modeling analysis of East Asian mega-city pollution

Changsub Shim (Kevin Bowman presenting)

 

3:40- 4

Break

4-4:45

Action Items/Discussion of Proposals

Annmarie Eldering

 

4:45-5:45

TES Data Users Guide

Susan Kulawik

yes

 

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

 

TIME

TOPIC

LEAD

9-10:20

Chemistry, Climate, and Dynamics

Kevin Bowman, Chair

Cleared JPL Doc Review?

 

Instantaneous Radiative Forcing from Tropospheric Ozone using TES Jacobians

Helen Worden

n/a

 

An analysis of interannual variability in tropical CO and ozone using TES, MLS, and OMI data and the GMI Combo model

Jennifer Logan

n/a

 

Quantifying the impact of long-range transport of pollution on ozone abundances in the Arctic troposphere

Thomas Walker

 

 

WRF-Chem regional modeling of the Mid-Atlantic: Comparison with Aura and Ground-based measurements

Dale Allen

n/a

10:20-10:40

Break

10:40-12

Intercomparisons

Brendan Fisher, Chair

 

A Global Comparison of Carbon Monoxide Profiles and Column Amounts from TES and MOPITT

Ben Ho

 

 

Intercomparison of tropospheric ozone measurements from TES and OMI

Lin Zhang

n/a

 

Updates on AIRS and TES CO comparison

Juying Warner

 

 

ACE and ATMOS measurements of methanol over North America

Curt Rinsland

n/a

12-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:30

Tropospheric Chemistry

Gregory Osterman, Chair

 

Satellite observations of ozone and carbon monoxide from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer over Beijing and China between 2005-2008

 

Paul Hamer

 

 

Ozone Budgets during the ARCTAS campaign

Anne Thompson

n/a

 

Arctic spring 2008 bromine catalyzed ozone loss studies

Murali Natarajan

n/a

 

Derivation and Validation of a Multi-sensor Upper Tropospheric Ozone Product (MUTOP) based on TES Ozone and GOES Water Vapor

Jenny Moody

n/a

 

Trends in Ozone and CO

Ming Luo

no

 

Mapping Science to Measurement Requirements for GEO-CAPE

Annmarie Eldering

yes

3:30-3:50

Break

3:50- 6PM

Posters

 

The impacts of dynamics and biomass burning on tropical tropospheric Ozone inferred from TES and GEOS-Chem model

Junhua Liu and Jennifer Logan

n/a

 

Convective-Scale Transport of CO and O3 During a 5-Day Period over the Southern United States (part1) (part2)

Mary Barth

n/a

 

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

 

TIME

TOPIC

LEAD

9-10:40

Hydrology A

Derek Brown, Chair

Cleared JPL Doc Review?

 

The use of HDO observations for understanding processes controlling the water vapor feedback

David Noone

n/a

 

Intercomparison of TES water vapor isotopes with in situ measurements from Mauna Loa

John Worden

 

 

Is there a record of changes in the jet stream over Greenland in the isotopic composition of snow and firn at the Dye 2 and Dye 3 ice core sites that has been derived from water vapor produced by tropical cyclones?

Jim Lawrence

 

 

Sources of water isotope variability in tropical monsoonal regions

Allegra Legrande

 

 

Information Content of Isotope Measurements for Calculating Evaporation and Precipitation Strengths

Kevin Bowman

 

10:40-10:50

Break

10:50-12:10

Hydrology B

David Noone, Chair

 

Nudged isotope AGCM simulation and its comparison with TES and SCIAMACHY isotope retrievals

Kei Yoshimura

n/a

 

Using HDO and H2O Measurements from TES to constrain a quasi-Lagrangian moisture transport model

Derek Brown

 

 

Comparisons between TES observations for vapor and its isotope and isotope enabled GCMs

Jeonghoon Lee

yes

 

Using backward trajectories to characterize the footprint of TES water vapor isotopes

Harald Sodemann

n/a

12:10-2

Lunch

Wrap-up (if needed)

2:00-3:00