INDOEX Operations Plan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CALENDAR*

Chapter 1 INDOEX Project Overview *

1.1 Introduction *
1.2 Scientific Overview and Rationale *
1.3 Scientific Goals and Objectives *
1.4 INDOEX Operational Area *
1.5 INDOEX Operations Plan Overview * Chapter 2 Operations Coordination * 2.1 Overview *
2.2 Science Team *
        2.3 Operations Center Staff and Functions *
        2.3.1 OST Functions and Specific Tasks *
        2.3.2 OST Staff Responsibilities *
2.4 Daily and IOP Planning Process *
        2.4.1 PI Proposals *
        2.4.2 Forecast Preparations *
        2.4.3 Daily Planning Meeting *
        2.4.4 IOP Mission Plan *
        2.4.5 Planning Updates *
2.5 IOP Operations *
2.6 Aircraft Coordination *
        2.6.1 Coordination with APE-THESEO Project Flight Operations *
2.7 Coordination with INDOEX Research Ships *
        2.7.1 Ship/Aircraft Coordination *
2.8 Surface Station and Soundings Coordination *
        2.8.1 Kaashidhoo Climate Observatory *
        2.8.2 Hululé Site *
        2.8.3 Other National Observatories *
2.9 Daily Operations Summary *
2.10 Other Briefings/Debriefings *
2.11 Operations Center Facilities *
        2.11.1 Offices and Room Locations *
        2.11.2 Electricity and Lighting *
        2.11.3 Telephone Lines, Fax and Computer Network *
        2.11.4 Services *
        2.11.5 Security * Chapter 3 INDOEX Weather Forecasting Support * 3.1 Introduction *
3.2 Forecast Team *
3.3 Daily Weather Briefing Activities *
3.4 Forecast Products *
3.5 Specialized Products *
3.6 Marine Forecasts *
3.7 Pre-Flight Weather Briefing *
3.8 Nowcasting *
3.9 Documentation * Chapter 4 Ship Operations * 4.1 Overview *
4.2 Special Ship Experiments *
4.3 Ship-Operations Center Coordination *
        4.3.1 Daily Ship Status Report *
4.4 Ship-Aircraft Coordination *
4.5 Ship Coordination with Land Sites * Chapter 5 Aircraft Operations * 5.1 Overview *
5.2 Aircraft Instrumentation *
5.3 Intercomparison and Calibration of Instruments *
5.4 Multiple Aircraft Coordination *
5.5 Aircraft Operational Guidelines *
5.6 Flight Facility Procedures *
        5.6.1 Dutch Citation-II *
        5.6.2 NCAR C-130 *
        5.6.3 French Mystère 20 *
5.7 Aircraft Scientific Crew Duties *
5.8 Candidate Personnel *
5.9 Post-flight Procedure *
5.10 Data Processing and Product Generation *
5.11 Flight Pattern Descriptions *
        5.11.1 Direct Radiative Forcing *
        5.11.2 Indirect Radiative Forcing Flight *
        5.11.3 Gradient/Profile Flight *
        5.11.4 KCO/Hululé Intercomparison Flights *
        5.11.5 MCR Flight Maneuvers *
        5.11.6 Aircraft/Satellite Intercomparison *
        5.11.7 French Mystère Flight Plans *
        5.11.8 APE-THESEO Project Flight Plans * Chapter 6 Surface and Sounding Observations * 6.1 Overview *
6.2 Coordination of Atmospheric Soundings during IFP *
6.3 Provision of Sounding Data to the Operations Center *
6.4 Coordination of Surface Observations during IFP *
6.5 Measurements at Kaashidhoo Climate Observatory *
6.6 Measurements on Hululé, Maldives *
        6.6.1 Contributions by the Institute for Tropospheric Research *
        6.6.2 Contributions by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center *
6.6 Laboratory of Atmospheric Optics (LOA, France) *
6.7 French Contributions to INDOEX Surface Network * Chapter 7 Satellite Data * 7.1 Introduction *
7.2 Satellite Data Availability in Support of Operations *
7.3 Archived Satellite Data * Chapter 8 Communications * 8.1 Overview *
8.2 Ship Communications *
8.3 Aircraft Communications *
8.4 INDOEX Network Description *
        8.4.1 Network in Hululé *
        8.4.2 Network Services * Chapter 9 Data Management * 9.1 Introduction *
9.2 INDOEX Data Management Policy *
        9.2.1 Data Protocol *
        9.2.2 Data Processing/Quality Control *
        9.2.3 Data Availability *
9.3 Data Archive and Analysis Centers *
        9.3.1 U.S. Data Archive Center *
        9.3.2 India Data Archive Center *
        9.3.3 European Data Archive Center *
        9.3.4 SIO/C4 Data Analysis Center *
        9.3.5 APE-THESEO Data Analysis Center *
9.4 Investigator Requirements *
        9.4.1 Data Format Conventions *
        9.4.2 Data Submission Requirements *
9.5 On-line Field Catalog *
        9.5.1 Submitting Data/Products to the On-line Field Catalog * Chapter 10 Administration and Logistics (JOSS) *
Appendix A List of Participants *
Appendix B Data Sources *

Dutch Citation *
R/V Ronald Brown *
C-130 Aircraft *
Sagar Kanya *
Hululé Operations Center *
Kaashidhoo Climate Observatory *

Appendix C Satellite Orbital Tracking Data *

NOAA 12 *
NOAA 14 *
NOAA 15 *
Seastar *
TRMM *

Appendix D Acronyms *
Appendix E OR/V Sagar Kanya Cruise Sounding Launch Schedule *
Appendix F GTS Stations within Boundaries *

NCAR EOL INDOEX Field Catalog