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COSMIC Retreat 9 October 2008. EOL Atrium Conference Room. Topics for Discussion. Where are we and where are we going? We are funded through FY2011 Beyond that, our future strongly depends on: COSMIC-II Involvement with other international missions
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COSMIC Retreat9 October 2008 EOL Atrium Conference Room
Topics for Discussion • Where are we and where are we going? • We are funded through FY2011 • Beyond that, our future strongly depends on: • COSMIC-II • Involvement with other international missions • Individual funded projects (write our own proposals) • COSMIC-II Planning • Definition of COSMIC-II (baseline: 12 LEOs + 3G, to be launched no later than 2013) • Possible new sciences (for research and operation) • Strategy on putting the project together • The coming year is very critical
Ground-based GPS • Ocean platform water vapor sensing • Caribbean GPS network • MRI proposal next year • Future direction
COSMIC Related Meetings • AMS Annual Meeting at Phoenix: • AMS COSMIC Interagency Meeting (1/12/09) • NOAA Climate Meeting (1/13/09) • COSMIC Special Session @ 13th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) (1/14/09) • Future RO Missions Workshop: • Feb 2009 at JPL, to be chaired by Tony Mannucci • FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC Workshop: • 26-28 October 2009 at Boulder, CO
Other topics • Scientific activities @ COSMIC • Publications • Proposals • Educational activities, students, and visitors • Impact of COSMIC on typhoon predictions • T-PARC reanalysis • Individual storm studies • OSSE to assess potential impact of COSMIC-II • Field program support • TiMREX, VOCALS • Future field program support • Study of boundary layer with COSMIC and other data