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1 SAFARI 2000 DRY SEASON CAMPAIGN PLANNING MEETING PIETERSBURG, SOUTH AFRICA APRIL 3-6, 2000 REVISED AGENDA (10 March 2000) DAY 1 SESSION 1: (9:00 am) INTRODUCTIONS AND UPDATES WELCOME Scholes & Annegarn Suttles DISCUSSION OF AGENDA SUMMARY OF ON-GOING ACTIVITIES 1999 Aerocommander Campaign Annegarn/Piketh/Tsay/Swap SAVE Tower Sites Mukelabai/Hanan/Annegarn Kalahari Transect Scholes, Otter, BU/UVA Satellites (Terra, Landsat, & TRMM) King EXTREME 2000 RAIN EVENTS Overview Kruger Park Status LOGISTICS FOR DRY SEASON CAMPAIGN OPERATIONS Shelton Facilities (Office Space, Communications, Internet, Local Transportation, etc) Special Shipping via C-141 Kroese, Lucio Biggs Symonds, SESSION 2: DRY SEASON CAMPAIGN SCIENCE OBJECTIVES & MEASUREMENTS (PIs /Site Mgr.s - Brief presentation to confirm status, plans, and needs) OVERVIEW OF OVERALL S2K OBJECTIVES / CORE EXPERIMENT Annegarn, Swap LUNCH (12:00-1:30 pm) SESSION 2.1: GROUND-BASED

2 SAFARI 2000 LEAD Project SAVE Towers EOS Val Fire Product Validation MODIS USFS/UM AERONET MISR MOPITT Drummond Maun Tower Vista Univ. Radiation Surface Soil Characterization Eckardt Others Scholes/Otter Scholes/Annegarn/Hanan Privette/Swap Justice/Roy(Swap) Ward Holben Helmlinger Winkler SESSION 2.2: AIRBORNE NASA ER-2 MAS AirMISR MOPITT-A CLS SSFR S-HIS LAS Shelton, Broda Platnick Conel(Vandenbosch) Drummond Spinhirne, McGill(Suttles) Pilewskie(Suttles) Ackerman(Suttles) Tsay ADJOURN FOR DAY (5:30 pm) SOCIAL / E-THEATER PRESENTATION IN PM King DAY 2 (9:00am) SESSION 2.2: AIRBORNE CONTINUED UW CV-580 Investigators Hobbs, Opacki Russell Pilewskie (Suttles) Buseck Yokelson Others,

3 SAWB Aerocommanders Investigators UKMO C-130 Annegarn, Piketh Novelli Doddridge Bruintjes Ward/Jury Others, Francis/Haywood LUNCH (12:00-1:30 pm) SESSION 3: BACKGROUND INFORMATION METEOROLOGY SAWB REP.s Forecasting Plans & Sample Products Forecast Modeling Trajectory Modeling Rawinsonde Plan Seasonal Meteorology Meteosat Imagery (temporal loops) Nominal Weather Patterns Typical Anomalies BIOMASS BURNING PATTERNS AVHRR Fire Record MODIS DMSP Fires and Flight Planning Tucker/Kendall(Swap) Justice/Roy/Swap Cahoon Swap DISCUSSION OF AIRBORNE FLIGHT PLANS FOR SCIENCE OBJECTIVES OF: All ADJOURN FOR DAY Ground-based Airborne Satellite DAY 3

4 (9:00 am) SESSION 4: MISSION PLANNING WORKSHOP Group Activity PRESENTATION OF TYPICAL SCENARIOS (e.g. passage of westerly wave and establishment of continental anticyclone) DEVELOP EXAMPLE MISSION PLAN Formulation of flight plans Trial run on regional site communication (including web access) Contingency / Alternate Flight Plans Prioritization of Secondary Missions PRESENTATION OF ATYPICAL SCENARIOS (e.g. cut-off low over Drakensburg) DEVELOP EXAMPLE MISSION PLAN Formulation of flight plans Trial run on regional site communication Contingency / Alternate Flight Plans Prioritization of Secondary Missions REPEAT FOR OTHER SCENARIOS AS REQUIRED WRAP UP- Suggestions For Improvement Way Forward Suttles/Swap ADJOURN FOR DAY GROUP DINNER BRAAI (aka Barbecue) DAY 4 (9:00 am) SESSION 5: DATA MANAGEMENT SUMMARY OF SAFARI 2000 DATA POLICY STATUS OF DATA PLANNING

5 NASA EOS DATA STRATEGY & DAAC Cook NASA GSFC Activities Regional Activities S2K Lead Project UB Data Handling Landis SAWB DATA ASSIMILATION & ARCHIVAL PLANS SAWB INPUTS FROM TEAMS List of all Instruments Data Acquisition Plans, Formats, etc Expected Data Volume Plans for Data Access Dissemination Needs SESSION 5.1: PRODUCT TIMELINES Moderators Landis/Cook Data Workshop On First Results - Early 2001 First Results At Scientific Conference Late 2001 Data Synthesis Workshop Early 2002 Safari Science Conference Late 2002/2003 SESSION 5:2: DEMONSTRATION OF MERCURY DATA SEARCH TOOL Cook LUNCH (12:00-1:30 pm) SESSION 6: LOGISTICS & MISC. POCs &Secretariat Agreements & Permits Shipping & Travel Communications (Phones, Internet, Etc.) Special Support (Gases, Cryogens, Etc.) Medical Travel, $ Exchange, Etc. Accommodations SESSION 7: WRAP UP UNFINISHED BUSINESS Handling Publicity Identify / Assign Action Items Swap ADJOURN MEETING

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