Agenda
2024 AMSG strategic Planning Workshop
July 9, 2024
0900 - 1000 Introduction and Goals of the Workshop (five-year strategic plan)
Session Goals: Discuss strategic initiatives needed to advance ARM science under each Topic.
1045 – 1215 Session 1
Option 1 – Core Aerosol-Related Measurements Leaders: John Shilling and Lynn Russell
Option 2 – Engage with strategic partners Leaders: Gannet Hallar & Tim Onasch
Option 3 – Improving the Understanding and Accessibility of ARM Aerosol Data Leaders: Adam Thiesen and Alyssa Sockol
12:15 – 1315 Lunch
1315 – 1445 Session 2
Option 1 – New Aerosol Measurement Techniques Leaders: Jim Smith and Markus Petters
Option 2 - Measurement Uncertainties Leaders: Olga Mayol-Bracero and Rich Moore
1445 – 1500 Break
1500 – 1630 Session 3
Option 1 – Roadmap to modeling Leaders
Introduction: Jerome Fast and Nicole Reimer (5 min)
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
Option 2 – Large spatial and temporal science studies: Chongai Kuang
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: 15:00 - 15:55, “Setting the Table”
- 15:00 - 15:05 Introduction (Chongai Kuang & Damao Zhang)
- 15:05 - 15:15 ARM Large-Scale Science (Chongai Kuang)
- 15:15 - 15:25 UAS-enabled Aerosol Science (Fan Mei)
- 15:25 - 15:35 Surface-through-Vertical Aerosol Science (Maria Zawadowicz)
- 15:35 - 15:45 Multi-scale Temporal Aerosol Science (Jim Smith)
- 15:45 - 15:55 Aerosol Vertical Profile Data Products (Peng Wu, pending)
Block 2: 15:55 - 16:30, “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
1030 – 1045 Break
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)