Agenda
2024 AMSG strategic Planning Workshop
July 9, 2024
Session Goals: Discuss strategic initiatives needed to advance ARM science under each Topic.
1045 – 1215 Session 1
1315 – 1445 Session 2
1315 – 1325 Aerosol Measurement Uncertainties: What is ARM AOS Currently Doing? – Olga Mayol-Bracero
1325 – 1345 - Operations
- 1325 – 1330 - Allison McComiskey - Aerosol water: Target of opportunity and uncertainty for ARM
- 1330 – 1335 - Nicole Riemer – A case for developing particle standards having known size, shape and composition to improve atmospheric measurements and model performance
- 1335 – 1340 - Janek Uin – Hygroscopicity closure evaluations
- 1340 – 1345 - Maria Zawadowicz – Assessing the calibration uncertainty and inter-instrument variability of the ACSM
- 1345 – 1355 - Discussion
1355 – 1405 - Developing of Instruments
- 1355 – 1400 – Ashish (virtual) – ARM mini-AOS for Distributed Sensing Network
- 1400 – 1415 – Discussion
1415 –1420 - Modeling connected to observations
- 1415 – 1420 – Jerome Fast – How models use (or don’t use) measurement uncertainties?
1420– 1445 – Open Discussions
Context presentation: Johannes Muelmenstadt: “Report on NASA workshop on Designing Observations for Climate Applications” (10 min)
Context presentation: Jerome Fast “Using models for OSSEs to guide measurement strategies” (10 min)
Discussion (55 min), topic including, but not limited to:
- Global modeling aerosol measurement needs
- Better connections with AeroCom/AeroSat community
- Data availability, uncertainty, and meta-data
- Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)
- Aerosols in LASSO
This breakout session invites participants to discuss and identify:
- creative deployment, modeling, and data-product development strategies to (better) link comprehensive and high-temporal-resolution ARM measurements with spatial information (scales: horizontal ~ 100s km, vertical ~ 10s km) and over longer time periods (scales: seasonal to inter-annual)
- collaborations (and how to build/sustain them) with other regional-to-national surface/aerial measurement networks (e.g., IMPROVE, ASCENT, NEON/AOP, AmeriFlux, NASA) to both contextualize ARM observations (in space and time) as well as provide an important reference for those networks
- opportunities to develop subsets of instruments (e.g., atmospheric thermodynamic profilers, aerosol size spectrometers) and deploy around a main site, to provide greater information about main site representativeness (e.g., local vs. background)
- collaborations with satellite programs for which the joint application of ARM’s comprehensive measurements at a single point with satellite-based spatial information would be of particular benefit to the ARM user community
Block 1: 1500 - 1555 “Setting the Table”
- 1500 - 1505 Introduction (Chongai Kuang & Damao Zhang)
- 1505 - 1515 ARM Large-Scale Science (Chongai Kuang)
- 1515 - 1525 UAS-enabled Aerosol Science (Fan Mei)
- 1525 - 1535 Surface-through-Vertical Aerosol Science (Maria Zawadowicz)
- 1535 - 1545 Multi-scale Temporal Aerosol Science (Jim Smith)
- 1545 - 1555 Aerosol Vertical Profile Data Products (Peng Wu, pending)
Block 2: 1555 - 1630 “Discussion”
- see above bullets in session description
1635 – 1715 Summary of Topics and Issues
July 10, 2024
0800 – 0900 Plans for Day 2 (Lightning Talks from each leader – short and informal talks giving Action Steps – Outline goals needed for strategic plan)
0900 – 1030 Session 1: Improve Existing ARM Systems and Programs - Keynote from Betsy Andrews, CIRES Research Scientist , NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
1045 – 1245 Session 2: New Frontiers of ARM - Keynote from Allison McComiskey, NSF NCAR Associate Director; Director, Earth Observing Laboratory
1245 – 1330 Working Lunch – Discuss plan for complete workshop report
1400 – 1600 Work on writing assignment - Summary/Questions/Issues
Task – Complete questionnaire in google document before leaving SLC
July 11, 2024
0900 - 1200 Small group writing session - includes one leader from each breakout session (I.e. AMSG committee members)