ORACLES Science Meeting
June 23-25, 2016
Building N232 room 103, Moffett Field, CA
Thursday June 23: Overview and Payload capabilities
Morning: Science objectives – unanswered questions. Project overviews.
8:00-8:30 Coffee, informal introductions All
8:30-8:40 Welcome Bicay
8:40-9:00 Science objectives – DIRECT EFFECTS Redemann
9:00-9:20 Science objectives – AEROSOL HEATING Zuidema
9:20-9:40 Science objectives – INDIRECT EFFECTS Wood
9:40-10:00 Coffee Break All
10:00-10:20 Updates on ORACLES Redemann/Luna
10:20-10:40 Updates on CLARIFY Haywood
10:40-11:00 Updates on LASIC Zuidema
11:00-11:30 Namibian Research interests Knox
11:30- 1:00 lunch (1.5 hr) - to Ames cafeteria or other
Afternoon: Logistics and instrument status updates -
1:00-1:50 Logistics overview Luna
1:50 P3 instruments (Status updates, current issues, specifics of ideal flight plans and maneuvers)
1:50 P-3 facility measurements (15) Van Gilst
2:05 Cloud (15) McFarquhar
2:20 HIGEAR (15) Howell
2:35 PDI (10) Small
2:45 CCN (10) Nenes
Break 2:55-3:30 final dinner count
3:30 PTI (10) Sedlacek
3:40 APR3 (10) Tanelli
3:50 SSFR (10) Pilewskie
4:00 COMA (10) Podolske
4:10 AMPR (10) Lang
4:20 4STAR (10) LeBlanc
4:30 PICARRO (10) Noone
4:40 P-3 (25) Valliant
5:05 Aeronet (15) Holben
5:20 Preview of tomorrow, adjourn for today Redemann
Friday Jun 24: Aircraft, Coordination, Modeling, Logistics and Capacity Building
8:00-8:30 Project Management & Logistics Luna
[during Coffee, lunch order process, collect/display posters] All
Morning: AEROCLO-SA, ER-2 and Modelers.
8:30-9:00 Updates on AEROCLO-sA and SEALS-sA Formenti
9:00 – 10:15 ER2 (1:15 total)
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
1:40 Updated Flight plans/module/score cards (40) Wood/all
2:20 Routine flight plans (20) Howell/Wood/Redemann
2:40 Flight operations – a day in the life of ORACLES (10) Redemann
2:50 Flight operations – in-flight decision-making (20) Redemann
3:10 Flight ops tools: everybody set up MTS config (20) ???/Pfister/Redemann
3:30 - 5:20 Coffee break and Poster session breezeway
5:20 regroup; preview of tomorrow; adjourn Redemann
Dinner on your own
Saturday Jun 25: Flight Planning
8:00 - 10:30 Detailed Flight Planning All
Flight Planning tools / distribution / users Redemann/LeBlanc
Flight Planning discussion (30-45 mins for each objective) All
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30 Coordination and flight monitoring with partners
Coordination with CLARIFY Haywood
Coordination with AEROCLO-SA Formenti
Coordination with Namibian Research interests Knox
11:30 Data Management (15) Shinozuka
11:45 - noon Open topics and wrap-up All