Dry Run / Flight Planning Meeting, 18-20 August 2015

ORCAS Dry Run / Flight Planning Meeting, August 18-20, 2015

Boulder and Broomfield, CO

Meeting Presentations

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015, Foothills Lab, FL2-1002
9:05 ORCAS project planning update Stephens
9:45 Field campaign logistics update (upload and deployment schedule, documentation deadline, shipping deadline, hotel/ops center/lab space plans, DIP clearance status, ++) Romashkin / Salazar
10:35 Break  
10:50 Instrument status w/ some dialing in. 5 minutes each, no slides. AO2, Medusa, QCLS, Picarro, TOGA, AWAS, PRISM, GNI, CLH-2, RAF  
11:50 Flight planning tool and nominal large scale flight plans Stephens
11:55 Example Lagrangian flight plans Stephens
12:00 Lunch  
1:05 Predicted large scale patterns, model exploration -- [Video A]  [Video B] Long
2:05 LPDM footprints, atmospheric signals, model exploration Kort
2:50 Field catalog update (live demo) Stossmeister
3:10 Break  
3:25 Discussion of forecast and flight planning timing (including pilots)  
3:40 Forecasting tools update Bresch
4:00 Presentation of Case 1 Bresch
4:30 Discussion of flight options  

 

Wednesday, August 19, 2015, RAF, Main Conference Room
9:10 Review of flight plan options and selection  
9:40 Presentation of forecast update Bresch / Honomichl
10:10 Flight plan revisions  
10:20 Presentation of actual flight day weather, discussion of outcomes Bresch
10:45 Break  
11:10 Reactive gas objectives and discussion Apel / Atlas / Schauffler
11:45 Remote sensing objectives, draft flight plans and discussion Geirach
12:20 Lunch  
1:30 Cloud microphysics objectives and discussion Jensen
1:45 Discussion of E&O and student led flight plans Stephens
1:50 Discussion 2 on Lagrangian and boundary layer sampling strategies Kort
2:20 Presentation of Case 2 Honomichl
2:50 Discussion of remote sensing options and make flight plan  
3:10 Break  
3:25 Discussion of bloom sampling options and make flight plan  
3:45 Discussion of Lagrangian options and design flight plan  
4:05 Discussion of large scale options and design flight plan  
4:25 Tour of ARISTO payload, time for instrument team discussions with Mark and Kurt  
5:25 Happy hour with dinner option -- Southern Sun, Boulder  

 

Thursday, August 20, 2015, EOL Atrium
9:00 Presentation of forecast update Honomichl
9:20 Flight plan revisions  
9:40 Presentation of actual flight day weather, discussion of outcomes Honomichl
10:10 Discussion: what other forecast products or tools do we need?  
10:30 Discussion: what other analysis of forecast models do we need?  
10:50 Break  
11:05 Discussion: updates to predicted large scale patterns (addressing questions from Day 1 and planning for more work)  
11:25 Discussion: updates to LPDM footprints/signals (addressing questions from Day 1 and planning for more work)  
11:45 Field staffing discussion / decisions, including ferry flight crews  
12:00 Adjourn  
1:00-5:00 Follow-on meetings

Post-docs meet with PIs to discuss prep and analysis plans

Bent/Stephens/Keeling paper discussion

More time for instrument teams to meet with Mark and Kurt at RAF

Others?		  

 

ORCAS Dry Run Summary

ORCAS Wish Lists and Action Items