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6th Aquarius/SAC-D Science Meeting. Radiometer Calibration Working Group Meeting. 19-21 July 2010 Seattle, Washington, USA. Does radiometric calibration working groups (WG) pertain to both AQ and MWR? Working group recommends separating MWR and AQ calib into separate subgroups
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6th Aquarius/SAC-D Science Meeting Radiometer Calibration Working Group Meeting 19-21 July 2010 Seattle, Washington, USA
Does radiometric calibration working groups (WG) pertain to both AQ and MWR? Working group recommends separating MWR and AQ calib into separate subgroups Also combining MWR Algo and Calib WG’s Working Group Charter
Pre-launch Calibration Activities Working group to provide peer review for MWR pre-launch calib activity milestones: • Level-1 ATBD review: Nov 2010 • Calibration test data analysis review: Dec 2010 • Engring model radiometric test plan review: Jan 2011 • MWR IOC test plan review: Feb 2011 • IOC test plan • Cold Sky Calib test plan • Inter-sat calib test plan • Engr model test data analysis review: Mar 2011
In-Orbit & Checkout: L + 45 days Working group will provide consulting and peer review to MWR project engr & AQ Science Team MWR project engr to provide to WG: • Daily status: • web page, email & telecons • Informal IOC data analysis review • Entry into routine science operations • Website with MWR documentation • instr pars & test data • Tiger team support for anomaly resolution (as required)
IOC + 6 mos Working group will provide peer review and consulting to MWR proj engr & AQ Science Team • MWR proj engr will provide long-term means and trends for key instr parameters • WG will participate in inter-sat radiometric calib • Milestones: • IOC + 30 days initial calib assessment workshop • IOC + 5 mos prelim calib workshop • WG assessment report to science team • IOC + 6 mos