[Arcsix] [EXTERNAL] Post-campaign ARCSIX plans

Tue Sep 10 22:55:48 PDT 2024

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Dear ARCSIX team,

it has been almost a month since we got back from Greenland. What an adventure and what a team effort! Pulling off a science flight the very day before leaving – that alone is a major accomplishment. I again want to thank each and everyone for your professional dedication and upbeat spirit, which led to two successful campaigns. I can't wait to reconnect with you all.

Some instrument teams are still in the process of retrieving their equipment, and of course some people from the ARCSIX team are now supporting PACE-PAX in what I would describe as a mission marathon, kudos! For these reasons, I have been rather quiet – until now... Let us start planning post-mission activities and hear about some early results. To do that, let us resume our all-hands meetings every third Tuesday of the month, starting on 9/17 at our usual time at 2pm ET (ESPO will send out a calendar invite). In addition, it would be great if you could reserve every first Tuesday (same time) of the month for smaller topical meetings as needed. We will discuss how to (re)organize ourselves in general in our first meeting. If there are formidable schedule conflicts with the proposed bi-weekly meeting times, please let me know.

Immediate tasks ahead include identifying research topics, emerging themes, coordinating research papers and of course generally exchanging ideas about what we think we saw. In the next few days, I will send out a spreadsheet (alas, spreadsheets are coming your way again!) with the intent to gather initial information.

We also need to start thinking about opportunities for in-person meetings. One of these opportunities is the week after the AMS Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Conference in Denver<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ametsoc.org%2Findex.cfm%2Fams%2Fmeetings-events%2Fams-meetings%2F2025-ams-denver-summit%2F&data=05%7C02%7CArcsix%40espo.nasa.gov%7C0bb76d4dfeb2434fdde008dcd2266a28%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638616309643189769%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=8F%2BfmOvi4erhmUCIUcjmREYZYOnsSoxELtVgXNpqfhs%3D&reserved=0>(12-16 May). The Science Team Meeting would then take place May 19-21 in the general Denver area. This is relatively late, but not at all unusual for field campaigns of this magnitude. After all, we need some time to process data, digest the results, and start working towards publications. At the same time, we should also take earlier opportunities to meet in person as sub-groups, for example during the AGU Fall meeting in DC (12/9-13) or the AMS Meeting in New Orleans (1/12-16). We should also collectively write a mission summary paper in BAMS sooner rather than later (we will talk about that on Tuesday). We have a lot of exciting preliminary results to showcase, even if the detailed papers will take a little while longer to produce. Of course, we will have to be respectful of intellectual ownership and coordinate who publishes what and when, which is one of the many reasons why we should meet regularly again. Next Tuesday, let us discuss some of these topics, including the timing of the next in-person meeting(s). Also, feel free to send me any slides if you would like to present data fresh off the press from ARCSIX. You can use this folder<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fdrive%2Ffolders%2F1TlmGptAvEj2XxjlUcrHUaWiqCJwZOM7h%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=05%7C02%7CArcsix%40espo.nasa.gov%7C0bb76d4dfeb2434fdde008dcd2266a28%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638616309643346011%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yUenT7bV6DwSqTzk6vqwbBOYhxuxRLvmca80jvtAN24%3D&reserved=0> to upload them.

Sorry for the long email, that's it for now. I hope you are doing well, and I hope to see many of you next Tuesday.
Sebastian
PS: I'd like to share this ESA blog<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.esa.int%2Fcampaignearth%2F2024%2F08%2F21%2Fearthcares-orcestra-takes-to-the-sea-and-sky%2F%23%3A~%3Atext%3DFriday%252016%2520August%2Csmoke%2520with%2520latitude&data=05%7C02%7CArcsix%40espo.nasa.gov%7C0bb76d4dfeb2434fdde008dcd2266a28%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638616309643346011%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=CuzQwg8GW6gtu31LckooWb8ARhCLopim74zubpahp%2BI%3D&reserved=0> on one of the first EarthCARE underflights because it features ARCSIX/HALO. Also: look at this wave pattern in Antarctica<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.esa.int%2FApplications%2FObserving_the_Earth%2FFutureEO%2FEarthCARE%2FEarthCARE_profiles_atmospheric_particles_in_detail&data=05%7C02%7CArcsix%40espo.nasa.gov%7C0bb76d4dfeb2434fdde008dcd2266a28%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638616309643346011%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=I5Cop8lhxUkuA6cdVG4XrrKspjyDpeP2UqigLccfb5E%3D&reserved=0> observed by ATLID. Finally, we have a lidar back in space, and it's already teaching us new things!
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  Konrad Sebastian Schmidt

  Associate Professor
  Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
  Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
  University of Colorado at Boulder
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