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UAE 2 Mission Planning Meeting-GSFC June 16, 2004

UAE 2 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

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UAE 2 Mission Planning Meeting-GSFC June 16, 2004

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  1. 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)

  2. 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

  3. 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 ??

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Miscellaneous Information • Persian Gulf should be called the Arab Gulf • Lieutenant ColonelAbdulla Al Mangoosh (1) • Major Abdulla Al Mandoos (2) • Piggy Back onto Weather Modification Experiment (Univ. Wits & NCAR) • Maha Al-Fahim (General Contact) MFahim@almiyah.gov.ae • Michel Qudsi (Public relations officer) MQudsi@almiyah.gov.ae, +971 50 5802388

  7. Miscealaneous Information • Ibrahim Karam (Head Technical Dept.) IKaram@almiyah.gov.ae • Muhammed Ramzan (Head Technician) MRamzan@almiyah.gov.ae • Stuart Piketh, stuart@crg.bpb.wits.ac.za • Roelof Burger, roelof@theburgerweb.com • Stephen Broccardo, stephen@crg.bpb.wits.ac.za

  8. 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

  9. Miscellaneous Information • http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tc.html • http://www.emirates.org/

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