CONTRAST
Science Team Meeting
21-22 October 2013
CONTRAST/ATTREX/CAST
Joint Operation Discussion
23 October 2013
NCAR FL2 Room 1024
Boulder, Colorado
Wireless: UCAR Guests, Password: vodgoticu
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 during
CONTRAST - 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
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 10:50
10:50 – 11:10
11:10 – 11:30
11:30 – 11:50
11:50 – 12:10
Halogen simulations in CAM-Chem and impact on ozone chemistry Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Jean-Francois Lamarque and Doug Kinnison
Coffee Break (Provided for all attendees)
Low ozone events over the western Pacific in SD-WACCM - Cameron
Homeyer
Pronounced ozone and OH minima in the tropical West Pacific
troposphere and implications for the transport of chemical species
into the stratosphere - Markus Rex
OH in the TTL and its relationships to solar radiation and reactive
nitrogen - Ru-shan Gao
Impact of convective transport on UTLS from trajectory analyses
and idealized tracers in SD-CAM - John Bergman
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
13:50 – 14:10
14:10 – 14:30
Relevance of CONTRAST to CCMI - Julie Nicely
TTL transport - a satellite perspective - Bill Randel
Climatology of cloud and precipitation over the CONTRAST region Chuntao Liu
Tropical convection from A-Train observations and implications for
CONTRAST - Johny Luo
14:30 – 14:50
14:50 – 15:20
Coffee Break (Provided for all attendees)
Measurements ___________________________________Chair: Elliot Atlas
15:20 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:20
16:20 – 16:40
16:40 – 17:00
Role of NOx measurement in CONTRAST science and what we
expect to see based on recent experiments - Andy Weinheimer
Significance of formaldehyde in the upper troposphere: perspective
from recent studies - Tom Hanisco
Observations of VOC in the upper troposphere: Sources and
chemistry - Eric Apel & Dan Riemer
Measurements of halogen species with CIMS: recent observations
and relevance to CONTRAST - Greg Huey
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
08:50 – 09:10
Use of Actinic Flux measurements to diagnose photochemical
processes in the tropical UTLS and outlook for CONTRAST
experiment - Sam Hall
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
09:40 – 10:00
Operations Plan and Flight Scenarios - Laura Pan & Ross Salawitch
Meteorology, Flight Planning Forecasts - Jim Bresh
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break (Provided for attendees)
10:30 – 12:00
Chemical Forecasts and Modeling - Ross Salawitch, Jean-Francois
Lamarque & Doug Kinnison
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
14:00 – 14:30
GV logistics and operations - Pavel Romashkin
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
15:50 – 16:10
16:10 – 17:00
Data Management - Steve Williams
Flight operations and limitations - Ed Ringleman
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
08:50 – 09:10
09:10 – 09:35
09:35 – 10:00
ATTREX Overview - Eric Jensen
CAST Overview - Neil Harris
Forecast product sharing and coordination - Lenny Pfister and Jim
Bresch
Chemical forecast product sharing and coordination - Ross
Salawitch
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break (Provided for attendees)
10:30 – 10:55
10:55 – 11:20
Flight planning coordination - Neil Harris
Flight monitoring and real time communications/operations center
- Laura Pan
Data sharing, in field and post mission, in field science team
meeting - Eric Jensen and Elliot Atlas
Final discussion - Laura Pan
Adjourn
11:20 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:00
12:00