uae 2 mission planning meeting-gsfc june 16, 2004 mission objectives: –validation/comparison to...
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UAE2 Mission Planning Meeting-GSFC June 16, 2004
• Mission Objectives:– Validation/comparison to column integrated in situ and
RS retrievals
– Mixed AEROSOL assessment (dust & fine mode fossil fuel)
– SSA and other dust properties vs other desert regions
– Validation for satellite RS retrievals (MODIS, MISR)
– Ocean color validation in a dust environment (SeaPRISM)
Measurement Plan
• Instrumentation-Approximately 12 to 15 cimels over Island, coastal and interior locations– Includes 1 oil Platform, 2 or 3 islands, 3 coastal Arab
Gulf sites, 4 desert interior sites, 2 mountain sites and 1 Arabian Sea site
– Collocation w/ MAARCO and SMART– Time period: from July 1- October 1.– Manned by Sorokine, Eck, Smirnov, Newcomb– Additional observations as required– Near Real time processing; http:aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov– Collocation w/MAARCO & SMART
Additional Measurement Plan
• Solar Flux-Joel Schafer & Tom Eck– Pyranometers and PAR sensors at ~ 6 AERONET sites
– Logging 1 ob/min
– Near Real time Data available thru ‘demonstrat’ & website
• Thermal Radiometer (cimel)-Michel Legrand– Collocated w/ MAARCO
– Coarse particle characterization
– Data Availability ??
Additional Measurement Plan
• UVB Shadowband-N. Krotkoff & J. Slusser– UVB AOT, UV direct and diffuse
– Frequency-1 minute
– Available on USDA UVB website 1 day lag
– Collocate w/MAARCO
• Polarimeter (cimel)-Sorokine– Beta version, multispectral
– Collocation w/MAARCO
– Data Availability: uncertain
Additional Measurement Plans
• BAMGOMAS, Integrated website -Giles– Backtrajectories: ~3 week time delay
– AERONET
– Modis-near real time Terra & Acqua
– Modis products (MOVAS)
– Monthly GoCart products-time delay months
– MPLNET products 1 day time lag
– http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/BAMGOMAS/index.html
Miscellaneous Information
• Persian Gulf should be called the Arab Gulf• Lieutenant Colonel Abdulla Al Mangoosh (1)• Major Abdulla Al Mandoos (2)• Piggy Back onto Weather Modification
Experiment (Univ. Wits & NCAR)• Maha Al-Fahim (General Contact)
[email protected]• Michel Qudsi (Public relations officer)
[email protected], +971 50 5802388
Miscealaneous Information
• Ibrahim Karam (Head Technical Dept.) [email protected]
• Muhammed Ramzan (Head Technician) [email protected]
• Stuart Piketh, [email protected]• Roelof Burger, [email protected]• Stephen Broccardo, [email protected]
Miscellaneous Information
• Dubai-Very cosmopolitan & westernized, tourism & technology
• Abu Dhabi-City and Emirate, Capital, largest in area, richest, slightly more conservative than Dubai, president is a birder, 4/1 expat/local
• Fly into Abu Dhabi if possible• 4 x 4 recommended outside the city• Summers are brutal >44° C, 60% RH coastal• Police force Indian, Taxis are Pakistani, Intellectual
Egyptian & Palestinian
Miscellaneous Information
• http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tc.html
• http://www.emirates.org/