The 2nd PACE-OCI-Polarimeter workshop at UMBC

Useful Links:

UMBC map

Meeting Agenda

Document on L1C data (from Kirk)

List of Attendees

Shared Google Drive folder for the meeting


Recommendation for dinner

1) Catonsville Gourmet ($$)

https://www.catonsvillegourmet.com/

829 Frederick Rd, Catonsville, MD 21228

2) The Elkridge Furnace Inn ($$$)

http://elkridgefurnaceinn.com

5745 Furnace Avenue, Elkridge, Maryland 21075

3) Guinness Open Gate Brewery ($)

http://guinnessbrewerybaltimore.com

5001 Washington Blvd, Halethorpe, MD 21227

When: Oct. 24th (Thursday), 2019

Where: UMBC Physics Building Room 401

Webex/Zoom info:

Meeting number: 902 516 031

Meeting password: Pol2UMBC!

Host key: 742211


Thursday, October 24, 2019

9:00 am | Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) | 11 hrs

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Meeting Agenda (last updated on 10/09/2019)

Speakers unconfirmed in red italics, confirmed in blue

Last update: 2019/10/09


PACE Polarimeter Workshop

24 October at UMBC 9.00-17.00

9:00 welcome and everybody gets coffee


9:15 Overview of PACE required and otherwise products: Jeremy Werdell


Instrument processing overview

9:30 PACE science data processing: Bryan Franz

9:45 HARP-2 Instrument and processing overview: Vanderlei Martins

10:00 SPEXone Instrument and processing overview: Otto Hasekamp


10:15 coffee

Vicarious calibration

10:30 On orbit calibration OCI: Sean Bailey and Fred Patt

10:40 Vicarious calibration, radiometric + polarimetric calibration HARP: Brent McBride

10:50 Vicarious calibration, radiometric + polarimetric calibration SPEXone: Otto Hasekamp

L1C discussion

11:00 OCI, HARP-2 and SPEXone on a common grid: Kirk Knobelspiesse

11:10 SPEXone: Jochen

11:20 HARP-2: Xiaoguang Xu

Discussion

11:30 - 12:30 Level 1 C product discussion: Otto Hasekamp, notes: Kirk Knobelspiesse

Lunch catered, at Physics building



Clear sky products

1:30 Radiative transfer & bio-optical modeling: Pengwang Zhai

1:45 Inversion of MAP measurements over open and coastal ocean waters: Meng Gao

2:00 Retrieval of atmosphere-ocean parameters from hyperspectral data using OC-SMART Yongzhen Fan.

2:15 airHARP retrievals Anin Puthukkudy

2:30 Polarimetric aerosol retrievals from PACE Feng Xu



Cloudy sky products

2:45 PACE project science OCI cloud product plans: Andrew Sayer

3:00 Polarimetric cloud products: Bastiaan


3:15 Coffee


Discussion: new frontiers - what new science can we do with new products from PACE?

Moderator (note taker)


3:15 Ocean color with spectroscopy, UV and polarimetry: Amir Ibrahim, (Meng Gao)


4:00 Aerosol direct radiative forcing: Brian Cairns (Otto Hasekamp)


4:30 Aerosol-cloud interaction and Climate modeling: Zhibo Zhang (Kerry Meyer?)


5:00 Wrap up