SEAC4RS Science Team Meeting 29 April – 1 May 2013

Monday, 29 April 2013

0800 Registration

Moderator – Brian Toon

0830 Introduction and NASA Headquarters Perspective – Hal Maring, Ken Jucks, Alex Pszenny, Mike Coffey, Richard Eckman

0850 Meeting Logistics – Kathy Thompson
0900 Discussion of SEAC4RS Calendar – Upload / Flight Schedules / Basing / Logistics – Kent Shiffer

0930 Overview of SEAC4RS Operating Structure – Brian Toon

1000 Weather and Climate Statistics – Lenny Pfister

1030 Break

1100 Overview of North American Monsoon: Goals, Types of Flights – Laura Pan
1130 Overview of Southeast U. S. Chemistry: Goals, Types of Flights, DISCOVER-AQ – Daniel Jacob

1200 Lunch

Moderator - Hal Maring

1330 Overview of Fire Sampling: Goals, Types of Flights, BBOP – Rich Ferrare

1400 Overview of Hurricanes: Goals, Types of Flights, HS3 – Lenny Pfister, Gary Wick

1430 Overview of Cloud Sampling – Dave Starr, Eric Jensen

1500 Aerosols and Remote Sensing – Jeff Reid

1530 Break Moderator - Ken Jucks

1600 Numerical Modeling Capabilities – Arlindo da Silva

1630 Satellite Data Products for SEAC4RS – Pat Minnis

1700 Balloons and Ground-Based Observations – Jeff Reid

1730 SPEC Learjet – Paul Lawson

1745 An overview of SENEX – Joost de Gouw

1800 Lessons learned from DC-3 – Jim Crawford

1815 Adjourn for the Day

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

0800 Registration

Moderator – Alex Pszenny

0815 Meet in plenary session (Room GC402) to discuss charge for Breakout Groups

0820 Transfer between rooms

0830 Breakout Groups on Science Goals – We want to obtain ideas from the PIs about flight planning and science goals

  1. A  Fires (Clouds) – Bob Yokelson, Eric Jensen – GC402

  2. B  Hurricanes (Clouds) – Lenny Pfister, Dave Starr – 2A305

Tuesday, 30 April 2013 (continued)

0930 Transfer between rooms

0940 Breakout Groups on Science Goals – We want to obtain ideas from the PIs about flight planning and science goals

C Southeast U. S. Chemistry (AERONET, DISCOVER-AQ, Clouds) – Hanwant Singh, Jens Redemann, Jim Crawford – GC402
D North American Monsoon – Laura Pan, Eric Jensen – 2A305

1040 Break

Plenary Moderator – Alex Pszenny

1110 Report on Fires – Bob Yokelson
1125 Report on Southeast U. S. Chemistry – Hanwant Singh 1140 Report on Hurricanes – Lenny Pfister
1155 Report on North American Monsoon – Laura Pan

1210 Climate Forcing and Free Radical Response: Convective Injection of Water Vapor into the Summertime Stratosphere at Midlatitudes – Jim Anderson

1230 Lunch

1330 Breakout Groups by Platform – Discuss logistics and instrumental constraints on flight planning, issues with upload

  1. A  DC-8 – Hanwant Singh, Jack Dibb – GC402

  2. B  ER-2 – Rich Ferrare, Eric Jensen – 1D403

  3. C  Flight Planning/Theory – Dave Starr, Lenny Pfister, Daniel Jacob – 2A305

1430 Transfer between rooms

1440 Breakout Groups

  1. D  DC-8, ER-2, Flight Planning – Hanwant Singh, Eric Jensen, Dave Starr – GC402

  2. E  Theory – Arlindo da Silva – 2A305

1540 Break

Plenary Moderator – Ken Jucks

1610 Breakout Report and Instrument Overview: DC-8 – Jack Dibb

1640 Breakout Report and Instrument Overview: ER-2 – Rich Ferrare

1710 Breakout Report: Flight Planning – Daniel Jacob

1740 Breakout Report: Theory Team – Arlindo da Silva

1810 Adjourn for the Day

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

0800 Registration

Moderator – Brian Toon

0830 NASA Pilot Overview of Issues They See in SEAC4RS – Frank Cutler, Tim Moes (actual presentation date 30 April)

0900 Collaborations with Other Groups – Hal Maring, Jeff Reid

0930 Data Policy and Intercomparison – Gao Chen (actual presentation date 30 April)

1000 Summary of SEAC4RS action items - Brian Toon, Hal Maring

1030 SPEC, Inc. Learjet Overview – Paul Lawson

1100 Adjourn