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SPARC Science Requirements Workshop
11 October 2010
ANOUNCEMENT
ESA in collaboration with SPARC organise a scientific consultation workshop on SPARC Science Requirements. The Workshop will take place at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 20-21 October 2010.
Background:
Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) was created in 1992 by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). It was created as a research project to study stratospheric processes and their role in climate. The principal objective of this project is to help the stratospheric research community focus on significant issues related to climate.
In the last years, the increasing capacities of existing and future Earth observation (EO) satellites opens the door for improved global observations of key parameters governing stratospheric processes. However, the full exploitation of this capacity by scientific and institutional users requires additional research and effort aimed at developing robust and advance products and enhanced models being able to exploit available data sets. In order to contribute to bridge that gap and reinforce the Agency support to major international scientific programmes, such as SPARC, the European Space Agency (ESA) in collaboration with the SPARC International Project Office organise a scientific consultation workshop (SPARC Scientific Requirements) aiming at identifying the major sceintific priorities of SPARC where ESA data may contribute.
On the basis of these priorities, ESA, truth it Support To Science Element (STSE) pland to start a number of activities on support of this community.
Workshop Objectives In order to better define the scientific requirements, priorities and scope for potential dedicated STSE activities, the workshop aims at given an answer to the following questions:
1. What are the current science needs in SPARC?
2. How might these be addressed with ESA data?
2. What the major priority areas in the short term?
The ultimate goal of this workshop is to develop a Science Requirements Document that would serve as the basis for an ESA STSE (Support for Science Element) ITT (Invitation to Tender, i.e. Call for Proposals) in the area of SPARC science.
Programme
Venue: ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Room: CHN L17.1
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Wednesday 20.10. |
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13:00 |
The ESA STSE program, support for WCRP projects, and boundary conditions (Claus Zehner ESA) |
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13:30 |
Opportunities for SPARC, and the goals of this workshop (Ted Shepherd) |
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14:00 |
CEOS-ACC ECV/CDR initiatives (Claus Zehner ESA) |
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14:15 |
ESA ozone CCI consortium (Michel Van Roozendael) |
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15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00 |
SPARC WAVAS-2 water vapour assessment (Tom Peter, Cornelius Schiller) |
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17:00 |
SPARC activities on stratospheric aerosols (Tom Peter, Larry Thomason) |
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18:00 |
End of first day |
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Thursday 21.10. |
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09:00 |
SPARC Data Initiative (Michaela Hegglin, Susann Tegtmeier) |
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10:00 |
SPARC Temperature Trends Working Group (Piers Forster, Ulrike Langematz) |
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11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 |
Other possibilities for SPARC-relevant activities? |
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12:00 |
Writing time |
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13:00 |
Lunch (at Dozentenfoyer) |
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14:00 |
Review of specific proposals, by activity area |
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15:45 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00 |
Plan for completion of science requirements document |
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17:00 |
Close of meeting |
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