MOPITT Canadian Workshop

October 4, 1997

Department of Physics, University of Toronto

Location:

Room 408,

Department of Physics,

University of Toronto,

60 St. George Street

MAP of U of T Campus

OUTLINE:

The Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument which is one of the major contributions of Canada to NASA's Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) program is scheduled for launch on the EOS-AM1 spacecraft in June 1998 - 10 months away. Once launched, it will make measurements of carbon monoxide profiles and methane column on a global basis for a five year period.

An important activity for the early part of the MOPITT mission will be the calibration and validation of the instrument and for this purpose a variety of non-satellite measurements will be required. There exists within Canada a long-standing tradition of atmospheric measurements and a number of groups would be able to make measurements in support of the MOPITT mission. Specific MOPITT validation campaigns are being planned as well as other "opportunistic" activities.

There is also a considerable community within Canada who could potentially use MOPITT data for other activities such as model validation and for chemical and transport studies.

Since MOPITT represents a considerable investment by Canada and since we are interested in producing as good a dataset as possible, the MOPITT science team have a particular desire to see as wide a participation in MOPITT activities from the Canadian community as possible. To this end the MOPITT science team is holding a workshop in Toronto on Saturday October 4th with the objective of a mutual sharing of ideas, plans and proposals for MOPITT validation and data use. We hope to have presentations from various groups who might provide correlative measurements and those who would use the data, as well as from MOPITT team members on the data which MOPITT will produce.

We have selected a Saturday in the hopes that this will ease the conflicts we all experience in trying to get to events and that some will be able to profit from the availability of cheap air fares at weekends.

Further details on the MOPITT instrument (including pictures of the testing of the flight instrument in Toronto which has just been competed) can be found at http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/MOPITT/home.html, http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/MOPITT/mop_workshop/leo.htm

If you are interested in attending this workshop, please respond to Dr. Boyd Tolton or Dr. Leonid Yurganov. If you know of anyone else who might be interested the workshop please forward this e-mail to them. The MOPITT team is eager to see as wide a participation as possible.

PRELIMINARY AGENDA:

8:30 AM	Registration
9:00 AM	Welcome to all Participants
9:15 AM	Outline of the MOPITT instrument and the scientific objectives	Prof. Jim Drummond Universaity of Toronto
9:45 AM	Current status of MOPITT instrument: Where are we now	Dr. Gurpreet Mand University of Toronto
10:00 AM	COFFEE BREAK
10:15 AM	Outline of the MOPITT data validation plan: objectives, criteria and strategies	Dr. JinXue Wang NCAR
10:30 AM	Requirements of Level 1 Validation and the concept of the MOPITT airbourne simulator: MOPITT-A	Prof. Gary Davis, Univeristy of Saskatchewan
10:45 AM	The US activities for MOPITT validation	Dr. JinXue Wang NCAR
11:00 AM	MOPITT Airbourne Test Radiometer (MATR)	Dr. Mark Smith NCAR
11:15 AM	Atmospehric chemistry modelling component of the MOPITT project	Prof Jack McConnell York University
11:45 AM	What can be done in Canada	Prof. Jim Drummond Universaity of Toronto
12:15 AM	LUNCH
1:30 PM	Presentations
4:30 PM	Open Discussion
5:00 PM	Closing Discussions	Prof. Jim Drummond Universaity of Toronto

PRESENTATIONS:

If you would like to give a presentation at the Canadian MOPITT Workshop, please send an email with the title of your talk to either Prof. Boyd Tolton or Dr. Leonid Yurganov. We are particularly interested in talks which deal with how you might be involved in MOPITT validation and/or how MOPITT data might be used.

1:30 PM	Wallace McMillan (University of Maryland, Baltimore County): "Validation of MOPITT with CO retrievals from air- and ground-based infrared interferometer spectra."
1:45PM	Wayne Evans (Trent University): "Ground based measurements of CO with an FTIR in thermal emission and in solar absorption"
2:00PM	P.S. Argall, R. J Sica, C. Bryant (University of Western Ontario) and Ray Hoff (AES): "Lidar Measurements of Water Vapour and Methane With a Large Power-Aperture Lidar."
2:15 PM	Hans Fast (AES, Atmospheric Environment Service): "Correlative measurements using ground-based interferometers operated by the Atmospheric Environment Service"
2:30 PM	Leonid Yurganov (University of Toronto): "CO in the Northern Hemisphere: Seasonal Evolution of Vertical and Horizontal Distributions (review of total column and surface data)."
2:45 PM	N. S. Pougatchev (NASA Langley) "Ground-based solar infrared spectroscopy for validation of the MOPITT CO and CH₄ measurements."
3:00 PM	Xu Lu (Denver University) "Seasonal change of CO column abundances and tropopsheric concentrations retrieved from FTIR solar spectra at 43.5^oN"
3:15 PM	Geoff Harris (York University): "CO and CH₄ vertical profiles using the York/AES fast response airborne tunable diode laser spectrometer"
3:30 PM	Laurie Rokke (Data Assimilation Office, Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA): "DAO Assimilation in Support of MOPITT Operational Retrievals."
3:45 PM	E. Rozanov, V. Zubov, M. Schlesinger, F. Yang, and N. Andronova (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): "Simulations of trace gas distributions with 3-D atmospheric chemical transpost model: model description and validation against UARS-CLAES and TOMS data."
4:00PM	Ian Folkins (Dalhousie University) and Bob Chatfield (NASA Ames): "Tropospheric transport processes: Quantitative checks, implications for OH (Experience with the Ames GRACES Models)"
4:15 PM	Kaz Higuchi (AES, Atmospheric Environment Service): "The role of transport and OH fields for CH₄ calculation in a two-dimensional photochemical/climate coupled model"

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