SAFARI 2000 SCIENCE REVIEW AND PLANNING MEETING

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, May 30-31, 2001


AGENDA

DAY 1 

SESSION 1:  INTRODUCTIONS AND UPDATES (9:00 am)

WELCOME - King / Justice (5 mins.)

DISCUSSION OF AGENDA - Suttles (5  mins)

ON-GOING & RECENT ACTIVITIES - Swap (20 mins)  

SESSIONS 2&3: WHAT IS THE STATE OF CURRENT ANALYSES? (9:30 – 12:00)  

Review of 2-pager overview of PI/Platform activities

SESSION 2: GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS & SCIENCE 
Chair: Privette (10 minutes per speaker)

SAFARI 2000 LEAD Project - Otter (Report)

Modeling Studies - Shugart

SAVE - Privette

MODIS Fire Validation - Justice

AERONET - Holben

MISR Ground Sites - Conel

BREAK (10:30-10:45 am)

SMART - Ji

MPL - Welton

Satellite Data Sets - Morisette

SESSION 3: AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS & SCIENCE

Chairs: Annegarn, Hobbs, King

Aerocommander Science – (40 mins.)

Chair & Lead Presentation - Annegarn 

Investigations - Piketh

Bruintjes

Swap

Novelli (handout only)

LUNCH (12:30 – 1:30 pm)

CV-580 Science – (50 mins.)

Chair & Lead Presentation - Hobbs (Presentation, Outline)

Investigations - Russell (Presentation, Report)

Pommier

Gatebe

ER-2 Science – (90 mins.)

Chair & Lead Presentation - King

Investigations: MAS - Platnick

AirMISR - Conel

MOPITT-A - Drummond (handout only)

CPL - McGill

SSFR - Pilewskie

S-HIS - Revercomb

LAS - Tsay

Other Aircrafts (10 mins.)

UKMO C-130 Science - Haywood (handout only)

UKMO Future Plans

SESSION 4: SCIENCE SYNTHESIS                                 

Mini-Synthesis of the major SAFARI 2000 themes (3:10 pm – 5:00pm)

Focus on:

What we have? What pieces do we currently posses to create the mosaic?

What we need? – data sets, special issues

What interactions are needed? – What collaborations are needed? 

Charge to breakout groups – Swap / Suttles

Breakout Groups & Leads  

[Group Leads give informal presentation ca. 15 minutes to initiate the discussion. Groups are to reach consensus on the above questions for report back in plenary on Day 2]

Land Atmosphere Interactions – Shugart

Aerosols – Annegarn

Tropospheric/Biogeo Chemistry – Thompson / Swap / Otter

Clouds/Indirect Effects – Bruintjes / King / Platnick

ADJOURN FOR DAY –GROUP DINNER AT MICHAEL KING’S HOUSE

DAY 2 (9:00 am)

DISCUSSION OF AGENDA Suttles

SESSION 4: SCIENCE SYNTHESIS – Continued

 Report Back – Breakout Leads (15 min pres., 5 min disc.)

 Land Atmosphere Interactions – Shugart

 Aerosols – Annegarn

 Tropospheric/Biogeo Chemistry – Thompson / Swap / Otter

 Clouds/Indirect Effects – Bruintjes / King /Platnick

BREAK (10:30 – 10:45 am)

SESSION 5: DATA MANAGEMENT (30 mins.)

Current State Of Data Registration, Archival, And Delivery For In-Situ & Remotely Sensed Observations

Regional Data Center - Annegarn

ORNL DAAC - Cook  

Mercury Tutorial - Cook

NASA GSFC Activities  - Privette

CD-ROM  - Landis

Processing Schedules - TBD

SESSION 6: SCHEDULES & REGIONAL MEETING IN ZAMBIA 

Plans for: Journal Special Issues - Swap

Schedule for Future Activities

Zambia Meeting Plan - Annegarn

Purpose / Agenda Discussion

Logistics / invites, hotels, travel, etc                        

SESSION 7: WRAP UP UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Identify / Assign Action Items - Suttles / Swap

ADJOURN MEETING (12:30 pm)



updated 21 June 2001