Workshop Agenda: Day One

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Workshop Agenda Day One

• 930 Introduction Lagerloef / Le Vine
• 945 Workshop objectives G. Feldman
  1000 Overview of the Aquarius Data Processing
  System G. Feldman
• 1030 ADPS Science Software Development
  Overview Bryan Franz
• 1100 Raw file to Level-1a processing and
  overview of Level-1b data format Fred
  Patt 1130 Radiometer Level-1a to Level-1b
  processing overview F. Wentz / S. Kim
• 1230 - 130 Lunch
• 130 Radiometer L1B continued C. Ruf /
  J. Piepmeier
• 1. RFI Flags C. Ruf
• 2. Radiometer Calibration Model J.
  Piepmeier
• 200  Scatterometer Level-1a to Level-1b
  processing overview S. Yueh / A.
  Freeman
• 300 Radiometer Level 2 Processing Overview
  D. Le Vine
• 330 Level-2 format options and flags
  Bryan Franz
• 400 Discussion

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Workshop Agenda Day Two

• 900 Level-3 Data Format and Binning Overview
  G. Feldman / Fred Patt
• 930 Level-3 Processing G. Lagerloef /
  Jonathan Lilly
• 1000 Aquarius Validation Data System
  Werdell / Gunn
• 1. Overview of the AVDS-ADPS data exchange
  Jeremy Werdell
• 2. Status John Gunn
• 1030 Mission Simulator Fred Patt
• 1100 Data Simulator S. Kennison
• 1130 Science and Data Simulators Status and
  future plans1. Overview Radiometer D. Le
  Vine
• 2. Scatterometer  Science and data
  simulation S. Yueh / A. Freedman
• 1230 130 Lunch
• 130 Strategy and Discussion How to proceed
  with development, implementation, integration and
  testing (All)
• 330 Adjourn

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Definition of Product Levels
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Simulated Data
Instrument Model Scat out Rad out
Science Simulator
Temperature
Level 1 Processing Instrument Cal
Model Calibrated Sensor Output Sigma0
TA
Spacecraft HK temp, ephemeris attitude, etc
Cold Sky
Model Validation
Science Retrieval Level 2 processing L2A and L2B
Ancillary data SST, NCEP, Sun, Ionosphere, etc
AVDS
Science Calibration
Science Grid L3
AVDS
Validation
L1 Product