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Workshop: Forging Community Consensus for an Integrated GHG and Winds Program

October 7 - 11, 2024
California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA 91125

Description

Workshop Overview:

To respond to climate change effectively, we need better information about how planetary ecosystems are responding to changes in the environment through carbon-climate feedbacks. There are several dedicated greenhouse gas missions, current and planned, focussed on observing changes in planetary greenhouse gas emissions from space; however, the ability to observe whether a reduction of emissions is attributable to a particular place, time, and process becomes entangled with the difficulties of observing concurrent changes in weather conditions. This gap prevents us from analyzing the impact of climate mitigation strategies and anticipating the fundamental interactions between the biosphere and climate change.

The overall goal of this KISS study on “Forging Community Consensus for an Integrated GHG and Winds Program” is to bring together expertise in wind observations and trace gas observation and attribution. Our work here will inform the design of a new satellite mission that will observe greenhouse gases and winds simultaneously. The resulting dataset will dramatically expand the boundaries of what is knowable about carbon-climate feedback through direct space-based observation. Workshop participants will determine together the questions that our group can answer in the near term and with new, future mission concepts.


Monday, October 7, 2024
Chen 100 Lecture Hall - Caltech

Short Course: Quantifying Emissions through Green House Gases and Transport

Introductory Lectures - Open to all interested students, researchers and faculty
Time
Event
Speaker
8:15 - 8:45 Coffee and Refreshments
8:45 - 9:00 Logistics / Introduction

Harriet Brettle

Team Leads
9:00 - 9:45 Estimating Fluxes in the Carbon Cycle
(.pdf slides)		 Anna Michalak
9:45 - 10:30 Observing meteorology across scales
(.pdf slides)		 Derek Posselt
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Observed co-variance of carbon exchange and meteorology
(.pdf slides)		 Ken Davis
11:45 - 12:30 Inversions: bias in priors, transport, and observations
(.pdf slides)		 Junjie Liu
12:30 - 1:30 Short Course Ends: Informal Lunch provided outside the Chen Institute

Invitation-Only Workshop Begins

Keck Canter - Think Tank, Room 155
1:30 - 1:45 Walk to Keck Center, pick up badge and welcome packet, find seat in the Think Tank
1:45 - 2:30 Workshop Logistics and Introduction to KISS

Harriet Brettle
2:30 - 3:00 Participant Introductions Harriet Brettle
3:00 - 3:30 Study vision and goals for this workshop

Team Leads
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00 Finalize study vision and workshop goals via plenary discussion Team Leads
5:00 - 5:30 Solicitation of Lightning Talks Team Leads
5:30 - 6:00 Pack up and walk to the Athenaeum All
6:00 Dinner at local Pasadena Restaurant

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155
Time
Event
Speaker
8:00 - 8:30 Institute Opens - print out problem/solution space cards.
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee and Refreshments at Keck Center
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics and Team Lead Goals for the Day

Harriet Brettle

Team Leads
9:15 - 9:45 Plenary Discussionbuilding on 1/5/20 year objectives to define priority topics of discussion and report outline Speaker
9:45 - 10:30

Lightning Talks:

- Wind priorities in the Decadal Survey (why should wind people care about GHG) - Derek Posselt

- Winds on different scales (can we understand wind without thermodynamics) - Louise Nuijens

- Can we do direct measurements of winds and GHG together - what would be useful? What meteorology products do we need to calculate fluxes? - Nick Parazoo

Derek Posselt
Louise Nuijens
Nick Parazoo
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:15

Introduction to Breakout Groups and Topics

All
11:15 - 12:30

Breakout Groups - Session 1: Providing acitonable information from gridded carbon fluxes across different scales

- Local Scale

- Country Scale

- Continental / Global Scale

 Groups
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch at the Athenaeum
2:00 - 2:45 Report outs from breakout groups (15 mins each) Groups
2:45 - 3:15

Lightning Talks:

- Horizontal winds vs. vertical mixing (large scale) - Andrew Schuh

- Example of an OSSE showing the impact of winds on flux, how to compute the sensitivity of transport errors on meteorology, can we express the sources of uncertainties in flux estimates coming from and how big - Junjie Lin

Andrew Schuh

Junjie Liu
3:15 - 3:30 Selection of Breakout Groups Topics All
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30

Breakout Groups - Session 2:

- Combining wind technologies

- What can be gained from GHG + other variables

- Capabilities of GHG measurements

Groups
5:30 - 7:30 POSTER SESSION and Informal dinner at the Keck Center
(dinner starts at 6:30 pm)

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155

Time
Event
Speaker
8:00 - 8:30 Institute Opens - FREE THINK TvIME
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee and Refreshments at Keck Center
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics and Team Lead Goals for the Day

Harriet Brettle

Team Leads
9:15 - 10:00 Report Outs from Breakout Groups 2 (10 mins each) Groups
10:00 - 10:30 Plenary - Moderated Discussion on the the current/near future state of wind observations and trace gas observations including report outline Nick Parazoo
Mary Whelan
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Group Pulse: What have you gained so far? What do you want to accomplish by Friday?  
11:30 - 12:30 Breakout Groups 3: Writing Sprint Sessions All
12:30 - 2:00  Lunch at the Keck Center
2:00 - 4:00 Walk and Talk at the Huntington Library and Gardens All
4:00 - 5:00 Optional Seminar in Sharpe Lecture Hall: NASA's New Orbital Imaging Spectrometers David Thompson, JPL
5:00 - 5:10 Return to the Keck Center
5:10 - 5:40 Feedback on the drafting sessions All
5:40 - 6:00

Plenary Discussion on Participant Wants and Needs. Revisit Problem/Solution Space.

Selection of Next Day's Lightning Talks

 All
6:00 Workshop Day #3 Ends All
6:00 OPTIONAL: No-Host Dinner in Pasadena

Thursday, October 10, 2024 - Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155
Time
Event
Speaker
8:00 - 8:30 Institute Opens - FREE THINK TIME
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee and Refreshments at Keck Center
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics and Team Lead Goals for the Day

Harriet Brettle

Team Leads
9:15 - 10:30

Moderated Plenary Discussion on:

- How to marry wind and trace gas observations in a modeling framework.

- Workshop Findings and Report outline

- Review of ideas and next steps

 Team Leads
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Lightning Talks:

- Thermal - SWIR - Vijay Natraj

- Vertical properties of trace gases (regional/global), different processes (vertical), in the boundary layer and why we care, how can we apply wind measurements to interpret GHGs direct observations vs. reanalysis - Ken Davies

- How can we use ML / new tech? - Dan Sheldon + Nikhil Dadheech

- Carbon-I - Christian Frankenberg

Vijay Natraj

Ken Davies

Dan Sheldon + Nikhil Dadheech

Christian Frankenberg
12:00 - 12:30

KISS Outputs

- Final Report and Stakeholders

- The Importance of Illustrations - KISS Gallery

 All
12:30 - 2:00  Lunch on your own
2:00 - 2:30  FREE THINK TIME (individual, or self organizing small groups) All
2:30 - 3:30

Breakout Group Session 4 - Small Group Writing Sessions

All
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:30 Breakout Group Session 5 - Report Drafting and illustrations Groups
5:30 Workshop Day #4 Ends All
6:00 Closing Dinner at the Athenaeum 

Friday, October 11, 2024 - Keck Center - Think Tank, Room 155
Time
Event
Speaker
8:00 - 8:30 Institute Opens - FREE THINK TIME
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee and Refreshments at Keck Center
9:00 - 9:15 Logistics and Team Lead Goals for the Day

Harriet Brettle

Team Leads
9:15 - 9:45 Plendary Discussion of Exec Summary and Key Messages All
9:45 - 10:30 Illustration Consensus All
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30

Making Thinking Visible - Writing Session

 All
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch at the Keck Center
2:00 - 2:45

Breakout Session:

Tailoring Key Messages to Stakeholder Groups
2:45 - 3:30 Making Thinking Visible - Writing Session All
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Workshop Closeout

 Harriet Brettle
5:00 Institute Closes

Workshop Participants:

  • Arlyn Andrews – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 
  • Michael Cartwright - University of Leicester/National Centre for Earth Observation 
  • Roisin Commane – Columbia University
  • Edmond Cunningham – University of Massachusetts Amherst 
  • Nikhil Dadheech – University of Washington
  • Kenneth (Ken) Davis – Pennsylvania State University
  • Christian Frankenberg – Caltech 
  • Jonathan Franklin – Harvard University
  • Xueyuan (Eric) Gao – University of Maryland College Park
  • Robert Green – JPL   
  • Jeremy Harrison - National Centre for Earth Observation 
  • Gretchen Keppel-Aleks – University of Michigan
  • Le (Elva) Kuai – JPL
  • Junjie Liu – JPL
  • Julia Marshall – German Aerospace Center (DLR)
  • Anna Michalak – Carnegie Institution for Science 
  • Vijay Natraj – JPL
  • Louise Nuijens – Delft University of Technology 
  • Nicholas (Nick) Parazoo – JPL 
  • Derek Posselt – JPL
  • Bharat Rastogi – University of Colorado Boulder
  • Anastasia (Natassa) Romanou – NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies 
  • Andrew Schuh – Colorado State University 
  • Daniel (Dan) Sheldon- University of Massachusetts Amherst 
  • Patrick Walton – Care Weather Technologies Inc.
  • Paul Wennberg – Caltech 
  • Mary Whelan – Rutgers University 
  • Fan Wu – Pennsylvania State University
  • Dien Wu – Caltech




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