7:50 a.m.

Welcome

8:00

Teleconference with Mary Kicza and Mike Freilich (CEOS Meeting in Frascati)

8:30

Background and Overview for the Workshop—Organizing Panel Chair Antonio Busalacchi, University of Maryland

9:15

Review of the NASA-NOAA OSTP Re-manifest Phase 2 Study

Sensor and Measurement Recovery Options—B. Cramer, NASA Headquarters CDR Science Support—J. Privette, NOAA NCDC

Discussion

1:30

Breakouts (focus on ECVs)

Charge to the day 1 breakout groups: Each of the afternoon working groups will provide a short report that will be presented the following day in plenary session.

1. What are the priority space-based ECVs/climate data records under consideration by this breakout?

2. What subset of the above will be accommodated by the coordinated NASA-NOAA strategy as presented in the phase II NASA-NOAA remanifest study?

3. Are there alternative approaches that are not explored in the NASA-NOAA study (e.g., free flyers, alternative platforms, leveraging international partners)?

4. Assess the risks and benefits of these various options.

5. Document your results in the template that will be distributed at the meeting.

Some of the issues to be considered in the above:

1. History/limitations of extant database and measurement capabilities, including calibration limitations and needs

2. How well alternative, indirect measurements or models can compensate for the lack of direct observations

3. Issues for interpreting the climate record—simultaneity of observations in time and space of related geophysical variables; spatial, altitudinal, and temporal resolution for each of the sensors, e.g., free flyers

4. Long-term strategy for ensuring climate records and broader climate services vision—overlap, calibration, redundant measurements/validation, data processing/reprocessing, algorithm development/evolution, archiving, science teams, grants/funding programs to support science teams

Breakout Session 1—Consideration of NPOESS and GOES-R Priority Measurements forECVs/Climate Data Records Related to Observations of the Atmosphere

Tom Vonder Haar, Colorado State University; John Bates, NCDC

Rapporteur: Mark Schoeberl, GSFC

Breakout Session 2—Consideration of NPOESS and GOES-R Priority Measurements forECVs/Climate Data Records Related to Observations of the Oceans

Bob Weller, invited; Jeff Privette, NCDC

Rapporteur: Ralph Milliff, NWRA

Breakout Session 3—Consideration of NPOESS and GOES-R Priority Measurements forECVs/Climate Data Records Related to Observations of the Land

Berrien Moore, University of New Hampshire; Marc Imhoff, GSFC

Rapporteur: Compton Tucker, CCSP

8:30 a.m.

Report out of Day 1 Breakouts

40 minute sessions (20 presentation/20 discussion) on status and/or potential tradespace for NPOESS and GOES-R sensors related to:

9:30

Radiation Sensors and Climate—Stan Schneider, NPOESS IPO

10:10

Visible/IR Sensors Related to Climate—Steve Mango, NPOESS IPO

11:00

Microwave Sensors and Climate—Karen St. Germain, NOAA NESDIS

11:40

GOES-R/HES—Mark Mulholland, NOAA NESDIS

12:30 p.m.

Working Lunch—Jim Gleason, GSFC; Marc Imhoff, GSFC

Discussion on the role of instruments on NPP and EOS (extended phase operations) in gap filling strategies

Breakouts (focus on sensors)

Session 1: Radiation Sensors

Judith Lean, NRL; Bruce Wielicki, LaRC

Rapporteur: Jim Coakley, Oregon State University

Total Solar Irradiance Sensor—Tom Woods, LASP

Earth Radiation Budget Sensor—Bruce Wielicki, LaRC

Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Limb Subsystem—Mark Schoeberl, GSFC

Discussion

Session 2: Visible and Infrared Imagers-Sounders

Graeme Stephens, Colorado State University; Paul Menzel, University of Wisconsin

Rapporteur: Stacey Boland, JPL

MODIS and VIIRS—Carl Schueler, Raytheon SBRC (retired)

APS and APS-MODIS/VIIRS Synergy—Brian Cairns, GISS

AIRS/IASI/CrIS-ATMS Climate Considerations—Tom Pagano, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Discussion

Session 3: Microwave Sensors

Frank Wentz, RSS; Dudley Chelton, Oregon State University

Rapporteur: Judith Curry, Georgia Tech

CMIS/MIS—Chelle Gentemann, RSS

ALT—Lee-Lueng Fu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

QuikScat Follow-on and XOVWM/Other Options—Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/NESDIS

Discussion

Session 4: GOES-R and HES

Chris Velden, University of Wisconsin; Bill Smith, Hampton University

Rapporteur: Phil Ardanuy, Raytheon

GOES-R and Its Role in Climate Research—Bill Smith, Hampton University

Options to Restore HES Capabilities—Hank Revercomb, University of Wisconsin; David Crain, ITT

Critique of the NOAA Analysis of Alternatives Document—Bob Atlas, NOAA

GIFTS and Its Potential Role in a Mitigation Strategy—Bob Atlas, NOAA

Science Validation Using Observation System Simulated Experiment—Bob Atlas, NOAA

Discussion

8:00 a.m.

Report out of Day 2 Panels

International Dimensions of a Mitigation Strategy—Videoconference, Geneva

(WMO Workshop, “Redesign and Optimization of the Space-Based Global Observing System”), Frascati, Italy (CEOS meeting), and ECMWF (Tony Hollingsworth)

Introduction of the Panel—Jim Purdom

Context of the NRC Panel on Options—Antonio Busalacchi

GOES-R Hyperspectral Measurements for Climate—Paul Menzel/Jim Purdom

CEOS Strategy on Climate Observations from Space—Barbara Ryan

WMO Workshop on Optimization—Don Hinsman

GMES and Climate Modeling—Tony Hollingsworth

Closing Remarks—Jim Purdom

Panel Questions and Discussion

12:15 p.m.

Working Lunch

1:30

Breakouts

Panel to Explore Particular Mitigation Options in Need of Further Analysis

Panel on Issues Related to CDR Generation

Review Requirements for CDRs (contrast with data retrievals for weather) and Assess Adequacy of Current, Post-Nunn-McCurdy Plans for:

• Pre-launch Instrument Characterization and On-orbit Calibration/Validation

• Overlap and Replenishment Requirements

• Data Storage, Archiving, Distribution, and Reprocessing

Panel-of-Panels Synthesis (What’s been lost; what can be recovered; and, per NASA request, interplay with decadal survey recommendations)

4:00

Reconvene in Plenary Session