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Day 1
Time Presentations / Topics Speaker Affiliation
1300 - 1520 Session 1:
Future Science Needs and Applications Motivating Space-based Wind Observations
Chairs: Kevin Garrett and Ad Stoffelen blank cell heading row
1300 - 1310 Welcome and Meeting Goals M. Hardesty, G. Skofronick-Jackson CIRES/NOAA and NASA
1310 - 1330 NOAA Greeting and Perspective, (PPTX, 5.07 MB) V. Griffin NOAA
1330 - 1350 NASA Greeting and Perspective K. St. Germain NASA
1350 - 1405 Global Wind Observations to Support Future Weather Forecasting, (PPTX, 6.01 MB) J. Yoe NOAA
1405 - 1420 European Perspective on High Impact Observations today and in the future, (PPTX, 7.29 MB) L. Isaaksen ECMWF
1420 -1435 NASA OSSE Studies on Future Instruments*, (PPTX, 2.56 MB) W. McCarty NASA
1435 - 1450 The role of winds from space as part of the OSSE support for the next generation of NOAA Environmental satellites, (PPTX, 3.94 MB) L. Cucurull NOAA
1450 - 1520 Panel Q&A blank cell heading row blank cell heading row
1520 - 1535 BREAK blank cell heading row blank cell heading row
1535 - 1720 Session 2:
Current Efforts, Concepts and Plans for Wind Measurements
Chairs: Gail Skofronik-Jackson and Lidia Cucurull blank cell heading row
1535 - 1550 Performance Assessment Tools to Support NOAA's Next-Gen Space Architecture Design S. Boukabara NOAA
1550 - 1605 Past and future on Aeolus follow-on DWLs, (PPTX, 13.38 MB) A. Stoffelen KNMI
1605 - 1620 NASA's Decadal Survey Recommendations for Winds and Ongoing Wind Lidar Activities, (PPTX, 166.73 MB) K. Bedka NASA
1620 - 1635 3D Winds from Atmospheric Motion Vectors: Information Content, Uncertainty, and Complementarity, (PPTX, 2.31 MB) D. Posselt JPL
1635 - 1650 Current activity for future space-based Doppler wind lidar in Japan, (PPTX, 2.86 MB) S. Ishii TMU
1650 - 1720 Panel Q&A blank cell heading row blank cell heading row
1720 ADJOURN blank cell heading row blank cell heading row

12-09-2020 12:32 pm



 
Day 2
Time Presentations / Topics Speaker Affiliation
0900 - 1115 Session 3:
Aeolus Status, Science, and Follow-on
Chairs: Anne Grete Straume and Sara Tucker blank cell heading row
0900 - 0910 Review of Previous Day M. Hardesty, G. Skofronick-Jackson CIRES/NOAA and NASA
0910 - 0925 Aeolus, ESA's wind mission - Status and future outlook, (PPTX, 15.33 MB) T. Parrinello ESA
0925 - 0945 Assessment of the Aeolus performance and bias correction - results from the Aeolus DISC, (PDF, 2.64 MB) O. Reitebuch DLR
0945 - 1000 Impact of Aeolus at ECMWF, (PPTX, 11.02 MB) M. Rennie ECMWF
1000 - 1015 Impact assessment of Aeolus horizontal line of sight winds on NOAA global forecasts, (PPTX, 12.22 MB) K. Garrett NOAA
1015 - 1030 Aeolus wind LiDAR data exploitation to improve hurricane numerical weather analyses and forecasts at NOAA, (PDF, 8.16 MB) K. Apodaca NOAA/CIRA
1030 - 1045 Comparison and validation of Aeolus winds to AIRS 3D winds, rawinsondes, and reanalyses, (PPTX, 7.9 MB) D. Santek U. Of Wisconsin
1045 - 1115 Panel Q&A blank cell heading row blank cell heading row
1115 - 1130 BREAK blank cell heading row blank cell heading row
1130 - 1300 Session 4:
Airborne Campaigns in support of Space-based Winds
Chairs: Michael Kavaya and Oliver Reitebuch blank cell heading row
1130 - 1145 Aeolus Airborne Wind Validation Campaigns at DLR, (PDF, 7.08 MB) C. Lemmerz DLR
1145 - 1200 The role of ADWLs in the design, performance simulations and trade studies of future space-based wind observing systems, (PPTX, 7.91 MB) D. Emmitt Simpson Weather
1200 - 1215 CPEX-AW Field Campaign: Virtual Flights Under Aeolus and Winds over the Tropical Atlantic S. Chen U. of Washington
1215 - 1230 Assimilation of Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar Collected in Tropical Cyclones, (PPTX, 15.1 MB) L. Bucci NOAA
1230 -1300 Panel Q&A blank cell heading row blank cell heading row
1300 ADJOURN blank cell heading row blank cell heading row

12-09-2020 12:33 pm



 
Day 3
Time Presentations / Topics Speaker Affiliation
0900 - 1125 Session 5:
Space-based Wind Measurement Technology
Chairs: Upendra Singh and Dave Santek blank cell heading row
0900 - 0905 Review of Previous Day M. Hardesty, G. Skofronick-Jackson CIRES/NOAA and NASA
0905 - 0925 Earth Science Technology Office Perspective on 3-D Winds P. Ghuman NASA
0925 - 0940 An ESPA-Grande-compatible free-flyer wind lidar mission design for aerosol and/or molecular winds, (PPTX, 29.07 MB) S. Tucker Ball
0940 - 0955 NASA Wind-SP Lidar Status, Plans, and Future Outlook S. Henderson Beyond Photonics
0955 - 1010 Emerging technology for a smallsat coherent wind lidar space mission with lower risk and cost, (PPTX, 7.11 MB) M. Kavaya NASA
1010 - 1025 Updates on the design of a laser for space-based wind, aerosol, and cloud measurements, (PPTX, 6.82 MB) F. Hovis Fibertek
1025 - 1040 Miniature Infrared Sounder Constellation for Thermodynamic and Wind Vertical Profiles, (PDF, 1.19 MB) K. Maschoff BAE
1040 - 1055 Latest Progress in LEO-GEO and GEO-GEO stereo AMVs: Implications for future 3D-wind observations, (PPTX, 12.27 MB) D. Wu NASA
1055 - 1125 Panel Q&A blank cell heading row blank cell heading row
1125 - 1140 BREAK blank cell heading row blank cell heading row
1140 - 1325 Session 6:
Moving Forward
Chairs: Mike Hardesty and Kris Bedka blank cell heading row
1140 -1155 NOAA perspective on Space-based Wind Observations: Next Steps Frank Gallagher NOAA
1155 - 1210 NASA perspective on Space-based Wind Observations: Next Steps* Gail Skofronik-Jackson NASA
1210 - 1225 Current Status of the ESA Aeolus Follow-On Mission, (PPTX, 4.98 MB) D. Wernham ESA
1225 - 1240 An Industry Perspective on Strategies Needed to Field a US Winds Mission, (PPTX, 562 KB) C. Springer Ball
1240 - 1325 Panel Q&A and General Discussion on Next Steps blank cell heading row blank cell heading row
1325 ADJOURN blank cell heading row blank cell heading row

12-09-2020 12:33 pm



 

 * Titles are tentative and will be finalized.