UAE2 Mission Planning MeetingGSFC June 16, 2004

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UAE2 Mission Planning Meeting-GSFC June 16, 2004

• Mission Objectives
• Validation/comparison to column integrated in
  situ and RS retrievals
• Mixed AEROSOL assessment (dust fine mode fossil
  fuel)
• SSA and other dust properties vs other desert
  regions
• Validation for satellite RS retrievals (MODIS,
  MISR)
• Ocean color validation in a dust environment
  (SeaPRISM)

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Measurement Plan

• Instrumentation-Approximately 12 to 15 cimels
  over Island, coastal and interior locations
• Includes 1 oil Platform, 2 or 3 islands, 3
  coastal Arab Gulf sites, 4 desert interior sites,
  2 mountain sites and 1 Arabian Sea site
• Collocation w/ MAARCO and SMART
• Time period from July 1- October 1.
• Manned by Sorokine, Eck, Smirnov, Newcomb
• Additional observations as required
• Near Real time processing httpaeronet.gsfc.nasa.
  gov
• Collocation w/MAARCO SMART

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Additional Measurement Plan

• Solar Flux-Joel Schafer Tom Eck
• Pyranometers and PAR sensors at 6 AERONET sites
• Logging 1 ob/min
• Near Real time Data available thru demonstrat
  website
• Thermal Radiometer (cimel)-Michel Legrand
• Collocated w/ MAARCO
• Coarse particle characterization
• Data Availability ??

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Additional Measurement Plan

• UVB Shadowband-N. Krotkoff J. Slusser
• UVB AOT, UV direct and diffuse
• Frequency-1 minute
• Available on USDA UVB website 1 day lag
• Collocate w/MAARCO
• Polarimeter (cimel)-Sorokine
• Beta version, multispectral
• Collocation w/MAARCO
• Data Availability uncertain

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Additional Measurement Plans

• BAMGOMAS, Integrated website -Giles
• Backtrajectories 3 week time delay
• AERONET
• Modis-near real time Terra Acqua
• Modis products (MOVAS)
• Monthly GoCart products-time delay months
• MPLNET products 1 day time lag
• http//aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/BAMGOMAS/index.html

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Miscellaneous Information

• Persian Gulf should be called the Arab Gulf
• Lieutenant Colonel Abdulla Al Mangoosh (1)
• Major Abdulla Al Mandoos (2)
• Piggy Back onto Weather Modification Experiment
  (Univ. Wits NCAR)
• Maha Al-Fahim (General Contact)
  MFahim_at_almiyah.gov.ae
• Michel Qudsi (Public relations officer)
  MQudsi_at_almiyah.gov.ae, 971 50 5802388

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Miscealaneous Information

• Ibrahim Karam (Head Technical Dept.)
  IKaram_at_almiyah.gov.ae
• Muhammed Ramzan (Head Technician)
  MRamzan_at_almiyah.gov.ae
• Stuart Piketh, stuart_at_crg.bpb.wits.ac.za
• Roelof Burger, roelof_at_theburgerweb.com
• Stephen Broccardo, stephen_at_crg.bpb.wits.ac.za

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Miscellaneous Information

• Dubai-Very cosmopolitan westernized, tourism
  technology
• Abu Dhabi-City and Emirate, Capital, largest in
  area, richest, slightly more conservative than
  Dubai, president is a birder, 4/1 expat/local
• Fly into Abu Dhabi if possible
• 4 x 4 recommended outside the city
• Summers are brutal gt44 C, 60 RH coastal
• Police force Indian, Taxis are Pakistani,
  Intellectual Egyptian Palestinian

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Miscellaneous Information

• http//www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/
  tc.html
• http//www.emirates.org/