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COSMIC All-Staff Meeting Friday, June 26, 2009

COSMIC All-Staff Meeting Friday, June 26, 2009. Agenda. Introduction of New Staff and Visitors ( Kuo, Schreiner ) Kim leaving COSMIC, currently 2 days/wk Ingrid coming back to COSMIC Xinan Yue (started June 1) SOARS Students (Ian Colón-Pagán, Michael (MK) Hernandez, Sharome Goode)

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COSMIC All-Staff Meeting Friday, June 26, 2009

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  1. COSMIC All-Staff MeetingFriday, June 26, 2009

  2. Agenda • Introduction of New Staff and Visitors (Kuo, Schreiner) • Kim leaving COSMIC, currently 2 days/wk • Ingrid coming back to COSMIC • Xinan Yue (started June 1) • SOARS Students (Ian Colón-Pagán, Michael (MK) Hernandez, Sharome Goode) • Hiring PS-1 (Supervisor: Sergey) • Hiring SE-1 (Supervisor: Doug) • COSMIC Management Restructuring (Kuo, Schreiner) • Chief Scientist, Chris at 50% FTE • CDAAC Manager, Bill Schreiner • Ground-based Manager, John Braun

  3. Agenda (continued) • COSMIC Status Update • CDAAC (Schreiner) • Science (Rocken) • Science Applications (Ho) • Ground-based GPS (Braun) • Administrative Items • Planning for FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Workshop, Oct. 2009 (Schreiner) • Performance Appraisals; FL4; NSF Report; Various (Moore) • UCAR 50th Anniversary Celebration (Frank Bristow) • Planning for COSMIC/Retreat, Nov. 2009 (Prinzi Kimbro) • Outlook for the Future (Schreiner)

  4. CDAAC Overview Bill Schreiner

  5. Overview Current Payload Status RTS Status Summary

  6. Successful COSMIC Profiles 4/21/06-6/23/08 Neutral Atm ~ 1.81M Iono EDPs ~ 1.96M

  7. GPS Occultation Payload/Firmware Status Current Status FM1 POD-00 FM2 and FM3 reduced duty cycles FM4 POD-01, recent brief periods of low SNR after powered-off FM5 lost POD-00 FM6 POD-00 powered off, low SNRs since 2008.274 FM6 OCC-03 has lower SNRs since 2008.290, poor recently Build 4.5.2 Uploaded to All FM’s Still issues with poor L2 tracking (~ 15%) Still issues with ‘closing loop’ with rising occultations Splitting SNR’s for closed loop data JPL Currently working on CHAMP, TerraSarX SNR/tracking issues Working on L2C (off) and other tracking issues Plan to test COSMIC EM antennas in thermal chamber

  8. Ground Systems - RTS Status • Fairbanks, Alaska (FBKS01) • Nominal • 5m Malibu (FBKS02) backup ready for receive and transmit (manually – not operational) • Tromso, Norway (NORTG5) • Nominal • 16 hr Power Outage, 5/12/09 18UT – 5/13/09 10UT • NASA/McMurdo supported extra (15-20) passes so no data loss • Wallops, Va (WALL01) • A few recent lost dumps • 2 operational passes/day • Uplink backup commanding for FBKS01 • McMurdo, Antarctica (MGS001) • NSF/NASA site, Now upto 10 (from 6) passes/day • ~ 24 min latency

  9. CDAAC Summary • Current constellation status not good, but count improving • RTS status good, investigating latency • Sent out CDAAC web site Opinio survey • CDAAC Update of BUFR files for NWP still in progress • Adding high level web status page for NWPs • For each FM for last 24 hours: Stats, Occ count, latency, current status, future status • Post-Processing • COSMIC, GRACE, GPS/MET, SAC-C, restarting TerraSarX, beta METOP/GRAS, • Working toward CDAAC 3.0, Early 2010 • Developing new web page • Developing new CDAAC rpm packaging system • Restructuring s/w and developing new CDAAC data products (BA, climate, NWP) • Meeting with Unidata about future RO netCDF/CF-conventions • Investigating new h/w and file system for future • 1096 data users from 52 countries • Ready to send data to AFWA

  10. Science Status Chris Rocken

  11. Overview Change in CDAAC management COSMIC II planning Status Possible detection of atmospheric ducts Next NSF Proposal

  12. NOSC Review of FY11-15 Program Plans December 5, 2008 NOSC = NOAA Observing System Council

  13. Algorithm Mission-critical Observing Requirement Weight(s) Incremental Requirement Gap Assessment (capability) Scores Summed for Programs A…N Total Utility X = Approximate technical risk based on two factors: the maturity of the technology and its deployment risk (e.g. average deployment or on-duty failure rate) Technical risk is reflected in reduced utility Technical Risk = Total acquisition and operating cost for a defined period of time (e.g. FY11-15 programming cycle Cost = Annualized cost Cost divided by the planned number of years of service included in cost estimate = Annualized Cost Technical Risk Annualized Priority Score ÷ Utility X 1000 X = 13 13

  14. NOSC Final Positions

  15. COSMIC II Status • NOAA is moving towards an RO program (helps to have Ector at NOAA) • Working on Level I Requirements document (which needs to be short, simple and signed to get a budget) • Bill S providing constellation and latency simulations to NOAA • Bi-weekly phone conferences to develop requirement document (typically about 10 NOAA people from different programs and 2 UCAR) • Had a 2-day meeting with NOAA & NSPO in DC • Positive feedback from NOAA management & NSPO • NOAA funding in FY 2011 looks likely • Main issues • Things are moving but seem slow • No funding yet to start new “TriG” receiver - may cause delay • Space weather latency requirement may be difficult to meet • NOAA wants to minimize risk / NSPO wants to maximize “learning experience” in s/c design etc. • Galileo delay possible / GLONASS CDMA uncertain / Compass??

  16. NOAA asks: Can RO detect the tropopause climate signal? “The team’s results show that human-induced (anthropogenic) changes in well-mixed greenhouse gases, which are fairly evenly distributed in the atmosphere, and ozone, a greenhouse gas that is found in higher concentrations in the stratosphere, are the primary causes of the approximately 200-meter rise in the tropopause that has occurred since 1979.” Santer et al., Science 2003 https://www.llnl.gov/str/March04/Santer.html

  17. UCAR - processed Metop data

  18. … and COSMIC data for the same period

  19. RO signals observed very deep below horizon may be caused by horizontally-inhomogeneous surface ducts

  20. Some of the received RO signals are not transmitted by occulted GPS. They may be transmitted by other GPS or other space-born or ground-based transmitters of the GPS frequencies.

  21. Science Applications Status Ben Ho

  22. COSMIC simulated AIRS Tbs vs. AIRS observed Tbs • 1. Estimates of the reproducibility for using • GPS RO Data for climate monitoring • (CDAAC team, RO-trend team): • inter-comparisons of refractivity derived • from different data centers (Ho et al., 2009, JGR), • - profile-to-profile comparisons, • - wrap up conclusions of NOAA-COSIMC • climate meeting in 2008 • 2. Validation and calibration of MSU/AMSU • measurements and radiosonde observations • using RO data (Xinjia, NOAA scientists) • (He et al., 2009, GRL, Ho et al., 2009, GRL) • 3. Validation and Calibration of satellite infrared • Measurements (Tom, Pat, and JPL scientists) • - NASA-CVO project • Involving NOAA people (GSCIS) • NIST proposal Dif COSMIC-AIRS Time < 2hours Dif COSMIC-AIRS Location < 200 km AIRS viewing angel < 15 degree

  23. Ground-Based Update John Braun

  24. New MRI-R2 Proposal • Overview • Collaborators • Soil Moisture • Other Projects • NOAA SDS Proposal • Mexico Workshop • Caribbean E+O Proposal Ground Based Update

  25. Broad Goals of MRI Proposal • COSMIC is developing a plan to create a national network of streaming GNSS stations for meteorology applications. The plan will include the following new capabilities: • PW updates with frequency and latency similar to WSR-88D network (<10 minutes) • GNSS instruments (GPS and GLONASS) for increased observational capability. • Dense network in Southern Great Plains for severe storm applications. • Ocean platform deployment into Gulf of Mexico • Will be large request, approximately $4 million, at least 3 years, more than 100 stations. • Developmental proposal. • 30% cost share commitment is mandatory.

  26. Collaborative Partners • UNAVCO - hardware acquisition, installation, and operation. • University of Oklahoma – Southern Great Plains network for convection initiation and radar studies. • Texas A&M Corpus Christi– Gulf of Mexico installation, storm surge modeling. • Louisiana State University – Gulf of Mexico installation, coastal subsidence, sea level monitoring. • Shell – Gulf of Mexico installation, storm forecasting and sea surface modeling. • NOAA – National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) – Gulf of Mexico installation and buoy access.

  27. Real-Time Network

  28. CASA Radar Map

  29. Preliminary GoM Deployment

  30. GoM Platform Schematic

  31. Gulf of Mexico Objectives and Platforms • Applications of Gulf of Mexico array include: • Ocean-atmosphere interactions • Storm intensity forecasting • Storm surge modeling (Texas A&M Corpus Christi) • Coastal subsidence (LSU lead) • Others applications include altimetry calibration, sea-level monitoring

  32. Soil Moisture Project • March 09 submittal of new proposal for soil moisture research in collaboration with CU (Kristine Larson and Eric Small). Also have NOAA participation (Zavorotny and Bilich). • Assess impact of moisture profile, vegetation, terrain roughness, antenna gain patterns. • Establish sites in varied soil/climate conditions. • Combine amplitude and reflector height information. • Compile database of “suitable” stations in US. • Two new papers have been accepted pending revisions for special IEEE/JSTARS journal on soil moisture.

  33. Munson Farm Stations

  34. Status, Opportunities and Pending Proposals • CSU/NCAR Fundamental Climate Data Record Proposal • Would lead to Post-Doc position to help with re-analysis • Upcoming Mexican PBO Initiative (UNAVCO, U. Wisc. CU, U. Arizona, NCAR) • Workshop in 2010 has been proposed, waiting on funding decision. • Caribbean E+O Proposal • Earth Science Literacy Proposal (Goddard, Puerto Rico Mayaguez, others..) • Train K-12 educators in Caribbean how to use results from Caribbean network to help teach earth science principles.

  35. GoM Sea Level Trends

  36. Administrative Items Bill Schreiner; Ingrid Moore; Sara Frank Bristow; Kim Prinzi Kimbro

  37. 4th FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop 27-29 October, 2009 - Boulder, CO – CG1 Registration opened 15 May, 2009 22 registrants so far, 14 presenters (4 posters) New Student Competition, with prizes COSMIC will provide student support Similar to 2nd F3C WS Invited talks New Science Applications Posters Forecasting/Assimilation Ionosphere and Space Weather Climate/Trend Studies COSMIC-II and other new missions - Open discussions COSMIC-II Executive discussion, Friday morning Web site setup: http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/oct2009workshop/index.html Email Announcement sent out Monday 30 Mar, 2009 Use UOP/JOSS for registration, payment, attendee lists

  38. Various Administrative Items Ingrid Moore

  39. FinTools Wiki site https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/fintools/Financial+Management+Tools+Project

  40. Outyear Funding • NOAA funding for 2009 Outyear support on the way, expected in September ($100K) • NOAA funding for CII planning on the way in 3 increments, expected July-Sept ($367K) • AF, NASA, NSF 2009 Outyear support on the way via new NSF Cooperative Agreement ($2.4M) • NSPO Outyear support contract signed, check is in the mail. Can start spending ($1.5M)

  41. 2009 Performance Appraisal Schedule Take into account we need Bill’s signature - he’s gone week of July 6. Gives 2 days to sign reviews. Reclass moratorium period – July 1 through second day of pay period 22 (Approx 10/4)

  42. NSF CDAAC Report • Old original CDAAC NSF award – Rick Anthes is “PI”. • Report will be due in early August. • If report is not on time, all funding to UCAR is delayed (Rick is UCAR President). • We need to have report ready to upload by end of July.

  43. FL4 Remodel Postponed • Remodel of FL4 schedule for 2009 on hold due to purchase of 3375 Mitchell Lane • 3375 Remodel will take priority • Proposed schedule for 3375: • Scope development Jul-Aug 2009 • Space Plan/ $ Approvals 21 Aug 2009 • RFP for Design Aug-Oct 2009 • Award Design Contract Nov/Dec 2009 • RFP Construction June-July 2010 • Construction Aug 2010 – June 2011 • Move-In (Who?) July 2011 • Use 3375 as swing-space for FL4? • Will know more after August 21 Pres Council Meeting • We will be required to estimate space needs thru 2012

  44. 50th Anniversary Open House Sara Frank Bristow

  45. 50th Anniversary Open House • Joint UCAR/NCAR Event: Saturday June 5, 2010 • “A very rare opportunity for the public to see, learn about, and gain appreciation of NCAR’s research and facilities” • Focus on Mesa Lab and Foothills Lab • FL4 closed: choose between ML Lobby and FL2 for our other exhibit(s) • http://www.50th.ucar.edu/ • Need volunteers! And please keep sharing your ideas!

  46. COSMIC Retreat 2009 Kim Prinzi Kimbro

  47. Outlook for the future • Meet with KASI (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) regarding KOMPSAT-5 RO Data Processing • July ? • Next NSF CDAAC proposal • This summer • NOAA/NSPO OSSE Workshop in Taiwan • Sept 3-4, 2009 • NOAA/NSPO Joint Program Office Meeting in Taiwan • Sept 7-8, 2009 • 4th FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Data Users Workshop • Oct 27-29, 2009 • NSPO/UCAR/JPL/BRE Lessons Learned Meeting • possibly after Oct WS, Oct 29-30, 2009 in Boulder • NOAA decision on COSMIC-II by end of this year

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