AC-VC-16 (Virtual)
Event Dates: June 8th - 12th, 2020
The 16th Meeting of the Atmospheric Composition Virtual Constellation
Agenda
Monday, June 8th, 2020 – Day 1
| time (UTC) | ID | Chair/speaker | duration (min) | |
| 13:00 | Welcome, opening, meeting goals, meeting setup [ Presentation ] | Jay Al-Saadi (NASA), Ben Veihelmann (ESA), Hiroshi Tanimoto (NIES) | 10 | |
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Greenhouse Gas Session (1h 50min) [ Presentation ] |
Dave Crisp (JPL) | |||
| 13:10 | Space-based CO2 and CH4 Inventories to support the 2023 Global Stocktake | |||
| 13:10 | 1.01 | Review of the objectives and progress toward atmosphteric inventories [ Presentation ] | D. Crisp (NASA/JPL) and Mark Dowell (EC) | 15 |
| 13:25 | 1.02 | Status of the CO2 Data Products from GOSAT and OCO-2 [ Presentation ] | Dave Crisp (JPL) | 10 |
| 13:35 | 1.03 | Status of the TROPOMI CH4 data products [ Presentation ] | Claus Zehner (ESA) | 10 |
| 13:45 | 1.04 | Flux Inversions capabilites at CAMS / CHE – Human Emissions [ Presentation ] | Richard Engelen (ECMWF) | 15 |
| 14:00 | 1.05 | Prospects and challenges of the Global Stocktake: Perspectives from CMS-Flux [ Presentation ] | Kevin Bowman (NASA/JPL) | 15 |
| 14:15 | 1.06 | Flux Inversion capabilities – Lessons from the OCO-2 MMIP [ Presentation ] | Sean Crowell (OU) | 15 |
| 14:30 | Can we detect the GHG signal of the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic slow-down? | |||
| 14:30 | 1.07 | Overview of the OCO-2/GOSAT experience [ Presentation ] | Dave Crisp (JPL) and Akhiko Kuze | 15 |
| 14:45 | 1.08 | Discussion | Dave Crisp (JPL) and Akhiko Kuze | 15 |
| 15:00 | End of Session | |||
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Tuesday, June 9th 2020 – Day 2 |
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| time (UTC) | ID | Chair/speaker | duration (min) | |
| Air Quality Trace Gas Session (2h) | Ben Veihelmann (ESA), Jay Al-Saadi (NASA) | |||
| 13:00 | 2.00 | Highlights of Missions in Operation [ Presentation ](45 min) | ||
| 13:00 | 2.01 |
GEMS Overview and Current Status
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Jeong Ah Yu (NIER) Jhoon Kim (Yonsei University) |
15 |
| 13:15 | 2.02 | Sentinel-5 Precursor/TROPOMI [ Presentation ] | Claus Zehner (ESA) | 15 |
| 13:30 | 2.03 | EMI | Liangfu Chen (CAS) | 15 |
| 13:45 | Mission Status Updates (lightning talks, 10 min) | |||
| 13:45 | 2.04 | Sentinel-4/-5 [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Ben Veihelmann (ESA) | 2 |
| 13:47 | 2.05 | TEMPO [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Kelly Chance (SAO) | 2 |
| 13:49 | 2.06 | Thermal Infrared Missions [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Cathy Clerbaux (LATMOS/CNRS) , Dave Edwards (UCAR) | 2 |
| 13:51 | 2.07 | NO2 Observations by GOSAT-GW [ Presentation ] | Hiroshi Tanimoto (NIES), Yasko Kasai (NICT), Yugo Kanaya (JAMSTEC) | 2 |
| 13:53 | 2.08 | EUMETSAT Contributions to AQ Observation [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Rose Munro (EUMETSAT) | 2 |
| 13:55 | Validation (50 min) | |||
| 13:55 | 2.09 | GEMS Validation Activities (PAN, Pre-GMAP, GMAP, AO, Asia Network Activities) [ Presentation ] | Limseok Chang (NIER), CK Song (UNIST), Sangwoo Kim (SNU) | 30 |
| 14:25 | 2.10 | Sentinel-5 Precursor/TROPOMI News and Lessons Learnt [ Presentation ] | Claus Zehner (ESA), Jean-Christopher Lambert (BIRA) | 10 |
| 14:35 | 2.11 | Status of Integrated AQ Validation/Science Networks in the US [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Jim Szykman (US EPA), Luke Valin (US EPA) | 5 |
| 14:40 | 2.12 | Sentinel-4/-5 Validation [ Presentation ] | Ben Veihelmann (ESA) | 5 |
| 14:45 | Discussion (15 min) | |||
| 14:45 | Opportunities, AC-VC Focus | all | 15 | |
| 15:00 | End of Session | |||
Wednesday, June 10th – Day 3 |
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| time (UTC) | ID | Chair/speaker | duration (min) | |
| Ozone Session (2h) | Diego Loyola (DLR) | |||
| 13:00 | Total ozone comparison (20 minutes) | |||
| 13:00 | 3.01 | Objectives of the ozone session [ Presentation ] | Diego Loyola (DLR) | 3 |
| 13:03 | 3.02 | GTO-ECV and adjusted MERRA-2 total ozone [ Presentation ] | Melanie Coldewey-Egbers (DLR) | 10 |
| 13:13 | Discussion | 2 | ||
| 13:15 | Tropospheric ozone from multiple instruments (35 minutes) | |||
| 13:15 | 3.03 | Tropospheric Ozone and Its Precursors from Earth System Sounding (TROPESS) [ Presentation ] | Kevin Bowman (NASA) | 10 |
| 13:25 | 3.04 | Tropospheric ozone from TROPOMI and BASCOE [ Presentation ] | Klaus-Peter Heue (DLR) | 10 |
| 13:35 | 3.05 | An overview of three tropospheric column ozone products [ Presentation ] | Jerry Ziemke (NASA) | 10 |
| 13:45 | 3.06 | GEMS tropospheric ozone [ Presentation ] | Jae H. Kim (Busan National Univ.) | 5 |
| 13:50 | 3.07 | Tropospheric ozone retrieval algorithms for OMI and TEMPO [ Presentation ] | Xiong Liu (SAO) | 5 |
| 13:55 | Discussion | 5 | ||
| 14:00 | Tropospheric ozone validation (25 minutes) | |||
| 14:00 | 3.08 | TROPOMI tropical tropospheric ozone validation [ Presentation ] | Daan Hubert (BIRA) | 5 |
| 14:05 | 3.09 | AC-VC tropospheric ozone validation plans [ Presentation ] | Jean-Christopher Lambert (BIRA) | 15 |
| 14:20 | Discussion | 3 | ||
| 14:23 | TOAR-II (25 minutes) | |||
| 14:23 | 3.10 | TOAR-II overview and satellite ozone working group [ Presentation ] | Helen Worden (NCAR) & Paul Palmer (Uni. Edinburgh) | 15 |
| 14:38 | Discussion on AC-VC contribution | 10 | ||
| 14:48 | Atypical ozone hole in Antarctic 2019 and Artic 2020 (15 minutes) | |||
| 14:48 | 3.11 | TROPOMI observations [ Presentation ] | Claus Zehner (ESA) | 5 |
| 14:53 | 3.12 | Record levels of polar column ozone [ Presentation ] | Natalya Kramarova (NASA) | 5 |
| 14:58 | Discussion | 2 | ||
| 15:00 | End of Session | |||
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Thursday, June 11th, 2020 – Day 4 |
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| time (UTC) | ID | Chair/speaker | duration (min) | |
| Air Quality Aerosol Session (2h) [ Presentation ] | Shobha Kondragunta (NOAA), Omar Torres (NASA), Ben Veihelmann (ESA) | |||
| 13:00 | Aerosol Modelling (30 min) | |||
| 13:00 | 4.01 | Capabilities, Limitations, Information Gaps for Aerosols and Air Quality [ Presentation ] | Arlindo Da Silva (NASA), Mian Chin (NASA) | 10 |
| 13:10 | 4.02 | Aerosol Monitoring by Assimilation of AOD and Radiances [ Presentation ] | Samuel Quesada (ECMWF), Sebastien Garrigues (ECMWF) | 10 |
| 13:20 | 4.03 | Model Evaluation and Uncertainties [ Presentation ] | Pablo Saide (UCLA) | 10 |
| 13:30 | Satellite Aerosol Products for Air Quality (1h) | |||
| 13:30 | 4.04 | Satellite Aerosol Physical/Optical properties and PM2.5 [ Presentation ] | Dave Diner (NASA), Yang Liu (JPL) | 10 |
| 13:40 | 4.05 | Aerosol Layer Height from Spectrometers (TROPOMI/S4/S5) [ Presentation ] | Pepijn Veefkind (KNMI) | 10 |
| 13:50 | 4.06 | Aerosol Layer Height from multiple sensors [ Presentation ] | Jun Wang (Uni Iowa) | 10 |
| 14:00 | 4.07 | Particle shape, size, composition from satellites [ Presentation ] | Ralph Kahn (NASA) | 10 |
| 14:10 | 4.08 | Global Estimates of Long-Term Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations Derived from Multiple Data Sources [ Presentation ] | Randall Martin (Washington Uni) | 10 |
| 14:20 | 4.09 | Aeosols and air quality over India [ Presentation ] | M. V. Ramana (ISRO) | 10 |
| 14:30 | Mission Updates (Lightning Talks, 10 min) | |||
| 14:30 | 4.10 | Aerosol information from GEOKOMPSAT-2B GEMS [ Presentation ] | Jhoon Kim (Yonsei Uni) | 2 |
| 14:32 | 4.11 |
Aerosol information from Met Imagers (AHI, ABI)
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Taichu Tanaka (JMA-MRI) for Himawari-8/9, Shobha Kondragunta (NOAA) for GOES-16/17 |
2 |
| 14:34 | 4.12 | Aerosol information from the 3MI polarimeter and EPS-SG sensors [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Bertrand Fougnie (EUMETSAT) | 2 |
| 14:36 | 4.13 | Aerosol information from CALIOP/airborne/ground LIDARs [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Dave Winker and CALIOP team (NASA/LaRC) | 2 |
| 14:38 | 4.14 | MAIA [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Dave Diner (NASA) | 2 |
| 14:40 | Discussion (20 min) | |||
| 14:40 | Questions for POCs of Mission Updates, Whitepaper Topics, GEO Constellation, Unique Challenges | all | 20 | |
| 15:00 | End of Session | |||
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Friday, June 12th, 2020 – Day 5 |
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| time (UTC) | ID | Chair/speaker | duration (min) | |
| Interdisciplinary and New Topics Session (2h) [ Presentation ] | Hiroshi Tanimoto (NIES) | |||
| 13:00 | AQ-GHG co-benefits: what can AC-VC help advocate for? (30 min) | |||
| 13:00 | 5.01 | CO2M [ Presentation ] | Yasjka Meijer (ESA) | 5 |
| 13:05 | 5.02 | GOSAT-GW [ Presentation ] | Hiroshi Tanimoto (NIES) | 5 |
| 13:10 | 5.03 | AIM-North [ Presentation ] | Ray Nassar (ECC) | 5 |
| 13:15 | Discussion | all | 15 | |
| 13:30 | Covid-19 impacts (55 min) | Jay Al-Saadi (NASA) | ||
| 13:30 | 5.04 | Session introduction: supporting rapid response to future high interest events, what more can/should AC-VC do? [ Presentation ] | Ben or Dave or Hiroshi or Jay | 2 |
| 13:32 | 5.05 | ESA / NASA / JAXA Cooperation on Covid-19 [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Barry Lefer (NASA) | 10 |
| 13:42 | 5.06 | NOAA Covid-19 Activities and planning for future high-interest events [ Presentation ] | Mitch Goldberg (NOAA) | 3 |
| 13:45 | 5.07 | DLR Covid-19 Activities [ Presentation ] | Diego Loyola (DLR) | 3 |
| 13:48 | 5.08 | CNES and CNRS Covid-19 Activities [ Presentation ] | Cathy Clerbaux (LATMOS-CNRS), Carole Deniel (CNES) | 5 |
| 13:53 | 5.09 | Disseminating Scientific Results/Data in the Age of Social Media: rapid but rigorous [ Presentation ] | Shobha Kondragunta (NOAA) | 2 |
| 13:55 | Discussions and recommended next steps | all | 30 | |
| 14:25 | Collaboration and Linkages | |||
| 14:25 | 5.10 | IGAC Updates [ Presentation ] | Hiroshi Tanimoto (NIES), Jim Crawford (NASA) | 5 |
| 14:30 | CEOS business (10 min) | |||
| 14:30 | 5.11 | AC-VC leadership, Terms of Reference, ARD possibilities, monthly webinars, AC-VC#17 planning [ Presentation | Supplement ] | Jay Al-Saadi (NASA) | 10 |
| 14:40 | General Discussion | |||
| 14:40 | Additional Q&A | all | 10 | |
| 14:50 | Opportunities and recap of Actions | all | 10 | |
| 15:00 | End of Session | |||