Water and Energy Cycle Focus Area Review Overview

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Water and Energy Cycle Focus Area Review Overview
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Agenda Morning Review Focus Area (FA) Activi
ty Water Energy cycle Overview NEWS Implem
entation Plan Afternoon FA linkages Scien
ce Highlights FA Issues
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Water Energy Cycle Focus Area Activity

• Last Focus Area Review March 2003
• Requisite for focus area team
• Opportunity for NASA to lead in this field
• Establish our position and let others respond to
  it
  
• Early 2003 Formation of team to create NRA
• Expansion of small group suggested by Asrar and
  Birk
  
• Participants cant respond to NRA
• NASA Energy and Water cycle Studies (NEWS) team
  created
  
• Member would represent the breadth of their
  centers WE activity
  
• NRA submitted for HQ review in May 2003
  continues to be refined
  
• July 2003 Expansion of team to create IP
• Charge internally set
• Provide the details behind the WE roadmap
• Situate to build off NRA selections
• Would address WE funding, not YS Disc. Program
  implementation, to
  
• To integrate products of YS disc. programs
• To uncover and fill gaps where appropriate for
  NASA
  

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NEWS Team
Goal to have a NASA-focused, inter-center science
team.

• Primary
• Paul Houser GSFC
• Bill Lapenta - MSFC
• Bill Rossow - GISS
• Bing Lin - Langley
• Eni Njoku - JPL
• Parminder Ghuman - ESTO
• Adam Schlosser GSFC/MIT
• Bob Schiffer UMBC (ret. ESE)
• Jared Entin - HQ

• Contributors
• Mike Jasinski
• David Rind
• David Toll
• Bruce Wielicki
• Pierre Morel
• Waleed Abdalati
• Ramesh Kakar
• Peter Hildebrand
• Loren Lemmerman
• Eric Smith

Technical Assistance Deborah Belvedere
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NEWS Specifics

• Overview of IP to follow
• Details in the text / not todays presentations
• NEWS IP lays out tasks / does not assign them
• Not a finished first version
• Where to go from here
• HQ involvement, guidance, and endorsement
  required
  
• YS Discipline Managers
• Coordinate with other Focus Area plans
• External (interagency and international)
  alignment
  
• Public release/comment on IP
• Formation of NEWS science team (from NRA)
• Define aspects (limits) of living document
  (review cycle?)