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NASA is sponsoring a major experimental field campaign in winter of 1999-2000, called the SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE). The SOLVE campaign will use the NASA DC-8 and ER-2 aircraft with 4 heavy lift balloon launches deployed in Kiruna, Sweden to investigate the processes which control ozone levels in the polar regions.
THESEO 2000 (Third European Stratospheric Experiment on Ozone - 2000) is a pan-European activity consisting of THESEO projects funded in the EC's Environment programmes (in both the 4th and 5th Framework programmes) and a number of projects funded through the national programmes in Europe. It encompasses measurements from aircraft, balloons, ozonesondes, ground-based station and satellites. Collaboration between scientists in the two campaigns and sharing of data from them will greatly enhance the productivity of both.
NASA and the THESEO-2000 partners seek to establish a comprehensive data set of upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric trace gases and meteorological data in the northern polar regions, including latitudinal gradients across the polar vortex. They will perform flights to evaluate:
The purpose of this data protocol is to:
The SOLVE/THESEO-2000 Science Team (ST) is composed of selected principal investigators (PIs), project scientists, and project meteorologists. Program and Project managers are ex-officio members of the ST. Science Team members are listed at the end of this document.
The main ST responsibilities are:
The data exchange activity is expected to last 2 years. The flight program will be during the winter of 1999-2000, while the second half of the year will include data analysis and preparation of publications.
Dr. Michael Kurylo of the NASA will oversee the SOLVE data exchange. Dr. Georgios Amanatidis of the European Commission will oversee THESEO-2000 II data exchange.
The SOLVE science team is detailed on the SOLVE web page http://cloud1.arc.nasa.gov/solve/ for the ER-2, DC-8, OMS, ground, theory groups, and program management.
The THESEO-2000 science team is detailed on the THESEO-2000 web page.