# Aqua Teleconference February 5, 2004

**On the phone:**

*Project science*: Claire Parkinson (telecon chair)

*Instruments*: Vince Salomonson, Roy Spencer, Elena Lobl, Tom Pagano,
Kory Priestley

*ESMO*: Bill Guit, Angie Kelly

*Data*: Yun-Chi Lu, Robert Wolfe

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## **Mission Ops (Guit):** see distributed ppt file for details. 

Bill Guit went over his prepared slides. Issues of interest were:

Late March there will be another try to turn on the HSB (as per JPL's
recommendation)

PARASOL launch window: mid October to mid-December 2004; preparing the
Aqua inclination maneuver plan so that it will not impact PARASOL.

The AMSR-E Automatic Gain Control (AGC) was changed to Manual Gain
Control (MGC) on January 29^th^. Japanese engineers are looking at the
data.

Under the Planned activities, the main points were:

Getting ready for Aura launch,

Performed a test with the DB in Finland; AK remarked that they are
pleased with the data

Discussion about the IAM (Inclination Adjust Maneuver) test burn to make
sure the model predicts the correct orbit parameters: Tom Pagano would
like to understand why this test burn needs to be done when there is
risk involved. Tom and Bill will talk off line. Basically, Mission Ops
want to have the correct model so they could not have any IAMs in the
first 2 years after the launch of PARASOL.

**AMSR-E (Lobl, Spencer):**

The AMSR-E products will be available to the public 1 March 2004. Lobl
would like to send out an announcement about this release: everyone
agreed that the largest distribution is "iwg-everybody". Claire to help
with this issue.

The ADEOS II AMSR data will be released to the US AMSR team once Ramesh
Kakar sends a letter to the JAXA director, listing all the US scientists
allowed to use the data. Claire will help with trying to locate Ramesh.
(Lobl also called Joan Rolf, Code I to help expedite this letter!)

SMEX04 planning meeting will take place in Tucson, AZ, 11and 12
February. The campaign is planned for mid-July to mid-August in the
SWestern US and Mexico.

Roy Spencer gave congressional testimony on the role of science to a
Public Science and Public Policy subcommittee.

**MODIS (Salomonson):**

The MODIS science team now has around 60 members, including newly
selected members from the Terra/Aqua NRA. Vince is trying to get through
the procurement packages for these new people so they can attend the
MODIS Science Team meeting.

Action item from last month: quantify the advantage that the Terra Deep
Space Maneuver (DSM) provided to the MODIS products!

Response: for the SST product the DSM was able to improve the product by
0.1 deg at the edge of the swath, and 0.01 deg at nadir. Some of the
other products (like cloud tops,...) are still being analyzed. As of
now, MODIS will not be a proponent for the DSM on Aqua. Claire commented
that it will be up to CERES and AMSR-E to establish the need for this
maneuver.

**CERES (Priestley):**

Instruments nominal.

Wielicki out (had shoulder surgery). Before he left he instructed
Priestley's group to work on getting a response to the same action item
that MODIS had regarding the benefits of the DSM. They are looking at
the difference, if any, between the pre-launch and on-orbit conditions.
Analysis is still ongoing.

Code for Edition 2 of the Level 1b radiance data product and Level 2/3
ERBE-Like TOA flux data products is released to the DAAC.

### **AIRS/AMSU/HSB (Pagano):**

The next AIRS science team meeting will be March 30 through April 1 at
the Greenbelt Marriott. Encourage participation from all those
interested. The AIRS Science Team lost 2 members and gained 3-5 from the
Aqua NRA.

Pagano announced the near-real-time website that shows daily jpeg images
of surface temperature, 700mb temperature and total water over about
half the globe. The address is:
[www.jpl.nasa.gov/airs](http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/airs) . They are still
working on it and improving it; will add movies.

**Data committee (Robert Wolfe):**

The report on the Data Workshop was released: not many responses back.
Will go to the ESSIS meeting in California and present this report.

**Data system/EOSDIS: (Lu)**

Ocean color processing for Aqua transitioned from MODAPS to SeaWIFS on
Feb. 1^st^ (SeaWIFS will also distribute the data:
[www.oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov](http://www.oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/)).

There will be a DAAC Alliance meeting Feb 24 to 26. The first day the
meeting will be at NASA Hq. in front of the Application managers. The
last 2 days the meeting will take place at GSFC, bldg 32, room 202.

**Mission management** **(Angie Kelly):**

The Afternoon (PM) constellation meeting will be at Langley, the week of
March 22. Representatives from France will be attending.

Minutes are being placed on the following site:
<http://aqua.nasa.gov/minutes>. Corrections/additions should be sent to
Elena Lobl.

The next telecon will be at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 4.