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)

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; http:aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov– Collocation w/MAARCO & SMART

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 ??

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

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

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@almiyah.gov.ae• Michel Qudsi (Public relations officer)

MQudsi@almiyah.gov.ae, +971 50 5802388

Miscealaneous Information

• Ibrahim Karam (Head Technical Dept.) IKaram@almiyah.gov.ae

• Muhammed Ramzan (Head Technician) MRamzan@almiyah.gov.ae

• Stuart Piketh, stuart@crg.bpb.wits.ac.za• Roelof Burger, roelof@theburgerweb.com• Stephen Broccardo, stephen@crg.bpb.wits.ac.za

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 >44° C, 60% RH coastal• Police force Indian, Taxis are Pakistani, Intellectual

Egyptian & Palestinian

Miscellaneous Information

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

• http://www.emirates.org/