Plan Airborne Study of Asian Dust
and Pollution Plumes & their
Interaction with Clouds

NCAR Research Aviation Facility
JeffCo Airport, Colorado

Agenda

Participants List

Friday, 20 May 2005

13:00     Welcome and Opening Statements  (Stith)


  • Goals of meeting 

  • Basic ideas of following large scale dust events across the Pacific Ocean

  • Timeline (OFAP request, proposals, etc...)


13:15 Scope of Study (Ram)


  • Importance of dust events to large scale energy balance

  • CIFEX - brief review of project


  • 13:30 Description of HIAPER (NSF/G-V, Rogers)


    • Performance / endurance
    • likely payload in Spring 2007


    13:45
    NOAA Plans (Fred Feshenfeld)

    14:00 OPEN DISCUSSION

    • Science issues

    • key measurements
    • resources needed

    • likely participants


    15:00 Coffee Break

    15:15  OPEN DISCUSSION

      • project plans

      • next steps

    16:30 ADJOURN-  Tour of HIAPER