NAWDEX - North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

h1. Planning Procedures

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h2. (1) NAWDEX Field Phase

 * *Flight Planning Phase:*

 ** 12 September – 19 October 2016 

 ** first possible flight: 19 Sep 2016 

 ** last possible flight: 16 Oct 2016

 * *Transfers:* 

 ** HALO:      Thu, 15 September (to Keflavik) and Wed, 19 October (to OP)

 ** Falcon:    Sat, 17 September (to Keflavik) and Wed, 19 October (to OP) 

 * *Planning for the first days in Iceland*

 ** *Thu, 15 Sep*: 	arrival of HALO and most of the flight planning and instrument teams 

 ** *Fri, 16 Sep*: 	setup of the operation center and offices at the airport, flight planning with an announcement of first plans for Mon 19 Sep

 ** *Sat, 17 Sep*:  	potential day-off for HALO

 ** *Sun, 18 Sep*: 	kick-off-meeting (9-10 UTC)

 ** *Mon, 19 Sep*: 	first possible flight day

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h2. (2) Information Transfer 

 * *NAWDEX Campaign Wiki*

 ** Information about daily schedule, flight plans, weather etc. is communicated via the NAWDEX Wiki

 ** The NAWDEX Wiki is editable by all participants (upon registration)

 ** People that do not want to edit the page can send Information to a technical manager  

 ** The *Wiki’s main page* shows all essential information on: a Daily Schedule, the responsibilities, a planning summary matrix and instrument status 

 ** All documents will be made available on the NAWDEX wiki page, daily reports are linked on separate campaign day pages: e.g.  https://internal.wavestoweather.de/nawdex/projects/nawdex/wiki/Daily_Report_2016_09_19  

 ** The Wiki provides *templates* for all reports: https://internal.wavestoweather.de/nawdex/projects/nawdex/wiki/Templates

 * *NAWDEX broadcasting via Adobe Connect*

 ** Meetings will be available via live stream with the *Adobe Connect System (Information will follow)*

 ** It will not be possible of oral contributions for people outside Iceland. A real-time messaging will be available during the Meetings. 

    People from outside are welcome to send information to the Operation Center or a call  during the day.

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h2. (3) Daily Schedule	

 * *General planning Meeting* (every day at 11 UTC, 13 CEST) : max. 60 Min

   ** +Aim+: inform all participants about scientific plans and tentative flight plans, decide all open issues in coordination with the instrument groups and flight facility

   ** +Structure:+

   *** Key information from previous flight (2 minutes)

   *** Aircraft status report by FX-Operations

   *** Instrument status report by Instrument Manager 

   *** Short weather summary:  information about flight options for the next days and update for planning for the next day with the latest forecast

   *** Final discussion about flight pattern for next day (in case of 2 options)

   *** Announcement of tentative plans for Day+3 

   *** Coordination with other aircraft 

   *** Demand of ground-based obs (organized by Ground-Based Observation coordinator)

   ** Presentation and discussion led by the Scientific Manager

   ** After the general meeting FX (pilots, operations) and the mission scientists work on filing flight plans

 * *Flight planning meeting* (every day at 17 UTC, 19 CEST)

   ** +Aims+: 

   *** Wrap up of the discussion within the forecast team during the day

   *** Scientific discussion about options for the upcoming days, contribution by different groups

   *** Update of flight planning Matrix

   *** Presentation of  tentative flight plans (to be filed in detail on next morning)

   *** Discussion about coordination of aircraft

   *** Decision on responsibilities

   ** Campaign steering Group must be present to decide on what plans will be priority for the next morning 

   ** Presentation by chief forecaster supported by an assistant 

 * *Quick-Look Meeting* 

   ** depending on the schedule quick-look Meetings will be held after the research flights and when instrument groups had enough time to prepare quicklooks

   ** after or before the flight planning meeting

   ** should be organized by the instrument manager (collect presentations)

 * *Debriefing*

    *** Will be held after the research flights at the Airport

    *** Pilots and mission scientists

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h2. (4) Responsibilities

 * *HALO/Falcon Campaign Steering Group:*

   ** Group of 5 people that reach a final decision if needed (in case of different opinions) 

   ** Scientific Manager, Chief Forecaster, Instrument Manager, 2 NAWDEX Scientific steering group members

 * *Scientific Manager:*

   ** central contact person that knows all about the planning activities of the upcoming days

   ** chairs the general planning meeting (presents weather summary, flight plans and science goals)

   ** guides the decision making process 

   ** Deliverables:

   *** presentation at general meeting 

   *** planning summary matrix (gives an overview of plans for upcoming days, see Wiki-page for an example)

   *** daily schedule (in coordination with DLR-FX operations)

   *** list of responsibilities on NAWDEX wiki page 

   *** planning summary: a document that summarizes the planning process of the day and discussion at the meetings with focus on plans / changes / discussion Topics

 * *Chief Forecaster:*

   ** coordinates the forecasting team:

   *** collects information from forecasting group

   *** provides information to scientific manager

   *** provides information to mission scientists 

   *** chairs the Flight planning meeting

   ** Deliverables: 

   *** Presentation at Flight planning meeting

   *** Weather Summary: document on the weather situation of the day, 

   *** I would like to add an assistant position, a student that could prepare the Weather Summary

 * *Technical Manager:*

   ** Organizes the meetings (on-time start, infrastructure (computer, video projector, streaming via Adobe Connect System)

   ** Takes care of NAWDEX wiki (updates of main page, presentations, summaries, pictures)

   ** Collects reports

 * *Instrument Manager:*

   ** Collects information from all instrument PI’s on current isntrument status 

   ** A person from the instrument groups

   ** Deliverables: 

   *** Instrument summary (summary of the instrument status of the day, describe possible work on instruments)

   *** Instrument status table (overview of instrument status that is provided on the Wiki page)

 * *Mission Scientists*

   ** 1-3 persons (1 per aircraft, 1 at the ground) that are responsible to conduct a mission

   ** Deliverables

   *** Pre-flight: Develop the flight plans with pilots and operations, define release locations for dropsondes, provide flight plan to technical manager for upload to Wiki-page 

   *** Mission on-board: in-flight decisions HALO: communication with ground, dropsonde releases, Falcon: wind lidar operator

   *** Mission ground: monitors PLANET chat during the research flight, upload of most recent satellite images

   *** Post-flight: mission summary (document that summarizes all events during a flight including onboard/ground)

 * *Coordinator for Ground-Based Observations:*

  ** Distributes information to all ground-based observation facilities

  ** Activation of additional radiosonde observations *_(more Information will follow)_*

 * *DLR Flight Facility:* coordination of flights and flight planning with pilots 

  ** Katrin Witte (Project engineer DLR-FX, katrin.witte[at]dlr.de)

  ** Andreas Minikin (Project engineer DLR-FX, andreas.minikin[at]dlr.de)

  ** Frank Probst (DLR-FX Operations, Frank.Probst[at]dlr.de)

  ** Stefan Hempe (DLR-FX Operations, Stefan.Hempe[at]dlr.de)

 * *Campaign Reporter:*

  ** Creates the campaign diary that will be provided on the Wiki page

  ** Position can be filled by all volunteers: PhD student, instrument operator, radiosonde operator,…

  ** Deliverables: Create a short blog contribution that shows the day from different perspectives Collect some pictures of the day

  ** Here is an example that gives a rough idea http://blogs.esa.int/campaignearth/2015/05/20/windval-petta-reddast/ 

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h2. (5) Coordination with other Aircraft/Ground-Based Observation:

 * *French Falcon*

    *** French Falcon obervation period: 29 Sep – 17 Oct

    *** Contacts: Julien Delanoe (LATMOS/IPSL/UVSQ), Gwendal Rivière (LMD-ENS), Philippe Arbogast (Météo France)

    *** The French planning team will stay with us in the operation center near the Airport

    *** _procedure on the exchange of information and regular meetings has to be discussed (should be done before the HALO/Falcon General Meeting starts)_**

    *** The Scientific Manager will be the contact person from our side 

 * *Global Hawk / SHOUT*

    *** Global Hawk: (Jim, please add exact dates with overlap), 

    *** Contacts: Jim Doyle (NRL) will coordinate the exchange of information with the SHOUT team, Jason Dunion (NOAA)

    *** Daily coordination calls from XX Sep to XX Oct at XX UTC

* *UK BAE 146*

    *** Operates from Cranfield 

    *** Operation period: 19-30 September, 9-16 October, 2-3 double-flight missions), 

    *** Contact: John Methven (U Reading)

    *** Daily coordination calls from XX Sep to XX Oct at XX UTC

* *Ground-based observations _(this section needs to be specified)_*

    ** Managed by the ground-based observation coordinator

    ** +Observations:+

    *** DLR radiosondes (operated by M. Bramberger, from )

    *** France: 

    **** *_Gwendal & Philippe please add information on possible contact persons for the Supersites_* 

    *** Canada: 

    **** automatic 6-hourly releases from 19 Sep - 17 Oct

    **** *_(add list os Station names)_*   

    *** UK:

    **** Contact: Geraint Vaughan

    **** *_(add some Information on Aberystwyth super site)_*   

    *** Norway:

    *** EUMETNET: in case of a positive vote for our proposal (decision expected for 1 Sep 2016) we will add the procedure for on-demand radiosondes within the European network

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h2. (6) Reports