CONTRAST
Science Team Meeting
21-22 October 2013
CONTRAST/ATTREX/CAST
Joint Operation Discussion
23 October 2013
NCAR FL2Room 1024
Boulder, Colorado
Agenda
Monday 21 October
08:00 – 08:30 / Continental Breakfast (provided for all attendees)08:30 – 08:40 / Welcome
Bill Randel
Overview ______Chair: Laura Pan
08:40 – 09:40 / Overview of the CONTRAST experiment & on the Short-lived trace gases in the tropical atmosphere - Elliot Atlas
Photochemical hypotheses for halogen chemistry duringCONTRAST - Ross Salawitch
Transport and the dynamical environment of the western pacific - Laura Pan
Pre-Campaign modeling and analyses______Chair: Ross Salawitch
09:40 – 10:00 / Halogen simulations in CAM-Chem and impact on ozone chemistry - Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Jean-Francois Lamarque and Doug Kinnison
10:00 – 10:30 / Coffee Break (Provided for all attendees)
10:30 – 10:50 / Low ozone events over the western Pacific in SD-WACCM - Cameron Homeyer
10:50 – 11:10 / Pronounced ozone and OH minima in the tropical West Pacific troposphere and implications for the transport of chemical species into the stratosphere - Markus Rex
11:10 – 11:30 / OH in the TTL and its relationships to solar radiation and reactive nitrogen - Ru-shan Gao
11:30 – 11:50 / Impact of convective transport on UTLS from trajectory analyses and idealized tracers in SD-CAM - John Bergman
11:50 – 12:10 / Convective transport of very-short-lived bromocarbons to the stratosphere - Qing Liang
12:10 – 13:30 / Lunch (for purchase À la carte from the NCAR Cafeteria)
13:30 – 13:50 / Relevance of CONTRAST to CCMI - Julie Nicely
13:50 – 14:10 / TTL transport - a satellite perspective - Bill Randel
14:10 – 14:30 / Climatology of cloud and precipitation over the CONTRAST region - Chuntao Liu
14:30 – 14:50 / Tropical convection from A-Train observations and implications for CONTRAST - Johny Luo
14:50 – 15:20 / Coffee Break (Provided for all attendees)
Measurements ______Chair: Elliot Atlas
15:20 – 15:40 / Role of NOx measurement in CONTRAST science and what we expect to see based on recent experiments - Andy Weinheimer
15:40 – 16:00 / Significance of formaldehyde in the upper troposphere: perspective from recent studies - Tom Hanisco
16:00 – 16:20 / Observations of VOC in the upper troposphere: Sources and chemistry - Eric ApelDan Riemer
16:20 – 16:40 / Measurements of halogen species with CIMS: recent observations and relevance to CONTRAST - Greg Huey
16:40 – 17:00 / Recent studies of tropospheric halogen oxides and implications for CONTRAST - Rainer Volkamer
Tuesday 22 October
08:00 – 08:30 / Continental Breakfast(Provided for attendees)
Measurements (continuation)______Chair: Elliot Atlas
08:30 – 08:50 / Use of Actinic Flux measurements to diagnose photochemical processes in the tropical UTLS and outlook for CONTRAST experiment - Sam Hall
08:50 – 09:10 / Use of CO, CO2, CH4 measurements to diagnose air mass transport and sources: results from recent experiments and outlook for CONTRAST - Teresa Campos & Frank Flocke
Operational Planing ______Chair: Laura Pan
09:10 – 09:40 / Meteorology, Flight Planning Forecasts - Jim Bresh
09:40 – 10:00 / Chemical Forecasts and Modeling - Ross Salawitch, Jean-Francois Lamarque & Doug Kinnison
10:00 – 10:30 / Coffee Break(Provided for attendees)
10:30 – 12:00 / Operations Plan and Flight Scenarios - Laura Pan & Ross Salawitch
Data Policy - Elliot Atlas
GV data communication - Chris Webster
In-Field Quick Mergers and real time data monitoring - Shawn Honomichl
12:10 – 13:30 / Lunch (for purchase À la carte from the NCAR Cafeteria)
Project Logistics ______Chair: Elliot Atlas
13:30 – 14:00 / GV logistics and operations - Pavel Romashkin
14:00 – 14:30 / CONTRAST logistics and schedules - Vidal Salazar
14:30 – 15:00 / Real time data products and data catalog - Greg Stossmeister
15:00 – 15:30 / Coffee Break(Provided for attendees)
15:30 – 15:50 / Data Management - Steve Williams
15:50 – 16:10 / Flight operations and limitations - Ed Ringleman
16:10 – 17:00 / Project Discussion - Laura Pan, Elliot Atlas Ross Salawitch
Wednesday 23 October
08:00 – 08:30 / Continental Breakfast(Provided for attendees)
Joint Operation Discussion ______Chair: Ross Salawitch
08:30 – 08:50 / ATTREX Overview - Eric Jensen
08:50 – 09:10 / CAST Overview - Neil Harris
09:10 – 09:35 / Forecast product sharing and coordination - Lenny Pfister and Jim Bresch
09:35 – 10:00 / Chemical forecast product sharing and coordination - Ross Salawitch
10:00 – 10:30 / Coffee Break (Provided for attendees)
10:30 – 10:55 / Flight planning coordination - Neil Harris
10:55 – 11:20 / Flight monitoring and real time communications/operations center - Laura Pan
11:20 – 11:45 / Data sharing, in field and post mission, in field science team meeting - Eric Jensen and Elliot Atlas
11:45 – 12:00 / Final discussion - Laura Pan
12:00 / Adjourn