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Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory(CLARREO)
Welcome
David YoungProject Scientist
CLARREO Mission Formulation TeamNASA Langley Research Center
May 12, 2009
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Welcome
David Young CLARREO Mission Formulation Project Scientist
Calvin Lowe Vice President of Research & Programs Development, National Institute
of Aerospace
Ken Jucks Acting CLARREO Project Scientist
Richard Slonaker CLARREO Program Executive
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Meeting Goals and Objectives
Discuss and obtain agreement upon the mission-defining science requirements
Determine critical science questions and/or remaining studies needed to finalize for MCR, with schedule for completion
Determine observation requirements and/or remaining studies needed to finalize for MCR, with schedule for completion
Provide an opportunity for coordination between the mission engineering team and the science team
Provide clear understanding of the decision-making process
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NASA Implementation Chronology
01 / 07 Decadal Survey Released 07 / 07 First CLARREO Workshop 08 / 07 Initial NASA Cost Estimate (Team X) 09 / 07 Ad Hoc Science Team Formed 05 / 08 Official start of NASA Implementation 05 / 08 First Science Team Meeting 10 / 08 Second CLARREO Workshop Fall 08 Work on science objectives and requirements 01 / 09 CLARREO solar workshop 01-05 / 09 Review of key results 05 / 09 Second Science Team meeting
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Team Progress: CLARREO Imperative
Initiate an unprecedented, high accuracy record of climate change that is tested, trusted and necessary to provide sound policy decisions.
Initiate a record of direct observables with the high accuracy and information content necessary to detect long term climate change trends and to test and systematically improve climate predictions.
Observe the SI traceable spectrally resolved radiance and atmospheric refractivity with the accuracy and sampling required to assess and predict the impact of changes in climate forcing variables on climate change.
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Team Progress: Key Science Results
Clarification of science objectives Focus on decadal scale change
Major progress on all-sky IR benchmarking
Solar Beginning of solar OSSEs for defining benchmark Key results on information content of a radiance record Major progress on intercalibration approach Identification of polarization issues
Detailed analysis of alternative orbit sampling
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What We Need
Draft Level 1 requirement document at MCR
Clearly defined science objectives
Clearly defined flowdown to observation requirements Close in the IR and GPS Need this for solar
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How We Get There Process
Set the context for mission implementation Review current status of the CLARREO science questions and observation
requirements Review strawman mission architecture Summarize current understanding and identify issues
Expected Result Reach a decision on as many draft requirements as possible Document all input concerning outstanding issues and disagreements Identify near term actions required to resolve outstanding issues Identify critical trades for Phase A
Next Step Team will generate draft Level 1 Requirements document
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Day 1 Agenda
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Day 1 Goals
Set the context for the science requirement discussion HQ Perspective Project perspective MCR requirements Science definition status Mission Engineering
Open discussion of concerns and expectations for this mission What are the biggest risks to a successful mission? How do we mitigate these risks?
Provide clear understanding of the decision-making process
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Final Thoughts
Ground Rules Recognize common goals
Commitment to getting it right
Be constructive
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal” – F. Nietzsche
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SDT Solicitation
Coming out this summer
Will formally compete the Science Definition Team
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Logistics
Lunch We will take orders and have the food delivered
Team Dinner Wednesday night
Past presentations available using hyperlinked document
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Backups
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Day 2 Agenda
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Day 3 Agenda
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Day 4 Agenda
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