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1 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | h1. Planning Procedures |
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5 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | h2. (1) NAWDEX Field Phase |
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7 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Flight Planning Phase:* |
8 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** 12 September – 19 October 2016 |
9 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** first possible flight: 19 Sep 2016 |
10 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** last possible flight: 16 Oct 2016 |
11 | 50 | Andreas Schäfler | ** every 7th workday is a day off for ALL |
12 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | |
13 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Transfers:* |
14 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** HALO: Thu, 15 September (to Keflavik) and Wed, 19 October (to OP) |
15 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Falcon: Sat, 17 September (to Keflavik) and Wed, 19 October (to OP) |
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18 | 38 | Andreas Schäfler | --- |
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20 | 2 | Andreas Schäfler | h2. (2) Information Transfer |
21 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | |
22 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | * *NAWDEX Campaign Wiki* |
23 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Information about daily schedule, flight plans, weather etc. is communicated via the NAWDEX Wiki |
24 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** The NAWDEX Wiki is editable by all participants (upon registration) |
25 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** People that do not want to edit the page can send Information to a technical manager |
26 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** The *Wiki’s main page* shows all essential information on: a Daily Schedule, the responsibilities, a planning summary matrix and instrument status |
27 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** 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 |
28 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** The Wiki provides *templates* for all reports: https://internal.wavestoweather.de/nawdex/projects/nawdex/wiki/Templates |
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30 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | * *NAWDEX broadcasting via Adobe Connect* |
31 | 45 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Meetings will be available via live stream with the *Adobe Connect System * (https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/nawdex/) |
32 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** It will not be possible of oral contributions for people outside Iceland. A real-time messaging will be available during the Meetings. |
33 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | People from outside are welcome to send information to the Operation Center or a call during the day. |
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35 | 39 | Andreas Schäfler | --- |
36 | 39 | Andreas Schäfler | |
37 | 34 | Andreas Schäfler | h2. (3) Daily Schedule |
38 | 34 | Andreas Schäfler | |
39 | 34 | Andreas Schäfler | * *General planning Meeting* (every day at 11 UTC, 13 CEST) : max. 60 Min |
40 | 34 | Andreas Schäfler | |
41 | 34 | Andreas Schäfler | ** +Aim+: inform all participants about scientific plans and tentative flight plans, decide all open issues in coordination with the instrument groups and flight facility |
42 | 34 | Andreas Schäfler | ** +Structure:+ |
43 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Key information from previous flight (2 minutes) |
44 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Aircraft status report by FX-Operations |
45 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Instrument status report by Instrument Manager |
46 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Short weather summary: information about flight options for the next days and update for planning for the next day with the latest forecast |
47 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Final discussion about flight pattern for next day (in case of 2 options) |
48 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Announcement of tentative plans for Day+3 |
49 | 51 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Coordination with other aircraft (Input from other groups) |
50 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Demand of ground-based obs (organized by Ground-Based Observation coordinator) |
51 | 19 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Presentation and discussion led by the Scientific Manager |
52 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | ** After the general meeting FX (pilots, operations) and the mission scientists work on filing flight plans |
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54 | 34 | Andreas Schäfler | |
55 | 53 | Redmine Admin | * *Weather discussion* (every day at 17 UTC, 19 CEST) |
56 | 34 | Andreas Schäfler | |
57 | 34 | Andreas Schäfler | ** +Aims+: |
58 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Wrap up of the discussion within the forecast team during the day |
59 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Scientific discussion about options for the upcoming days, contribution by different groups |
60 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Update of flight planning Matrix |
61 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Presentation of tentative flight plans (to be filed in detail on next morning) |
62 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Discussion about coordination of aircraft |
63 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Decision on responsibilities |
64 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Campaign steering Group must be present to decide on what plans will be priority for the next morning |
65 | 25 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Presentation by chief forecaster supported by an assistant |
66 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | |
67 | 25 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Quick-Look Meeting* |
68 | 25 | Andreas Schäfler | |
69 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** depending on the schedule quick-look Meetings will be held after the research flights and when instrument groups had enough time to prepare quicklooks |
70 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** after or before the flight planning meeting |
71 | 37 | Andreas Schäfler | ** should be organized by the instrument manager (collect presentations) |
72 | 25 | Andreas Schäfler | |
73 | 25 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Debriefing* |
74 | 25 | Andreas Schäfler | |
75 | 25 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Will be held after the research flights at the Airport |
76 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Pilots and mission scientists |
77 | 32 | Andreas Schäfler | |
78 | 39 | Andreas Schäfler | --- |
79 | 25 | Andreas Schäfler | |
80 | 35 | Andreas Schäfler | h2. (4) Responsibilities |
81 | 35 | Andreas Schäfler | |
82 | 41 | Andreas Schäfler | In the following several positions are described that are defined to organize the planning team. The positions are thought to rotate every 2-3 days. |
83 | 41 | Andreas Schäfler | |
84 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | * *HALO/Falcon Campaign Steering Group:* |
85 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
86 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Group of 5 people that reach a final decision if needed (in case of different opinions) |
87 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Scientific Manager, Chief Forecaster, Instrument Manager, 2 NAWDEX Scientific steering group members |
88 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
89 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Scientific Manager:* |
90 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
91 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** central contact person that knows all about the planning activities of the upcoming days |
92 | 54 | Redmine Admin | ** chairs the general planning meeting and the weather discussion |
93 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** guides the decision making process |
94 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Deliverables: |
95 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** presentation at general meeting |
96 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** planning summary matrix (gives an overview of plans for upcoming days, see Wiki-page for an example) |
97 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** daily schedule (in coordination with DLR-FX operations) |
98 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** list of responsibilities on NAWDEX wiki page |
99 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** planning summary: a document that summarizes the planning process of the day and discussion at the meetings with focus on plans / changes / discussion Topics |
100 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
101 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Chief Forecaster:* |
102 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
103 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** coordinates the forecasting team: |
104 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** collects information from forecasting group |
105 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** provides information to scientific manager |
106 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** provides information to mission scientists |
107 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** chairs the Flight planning meeting |
108 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Deliverables: |
109 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Presentation at Flight planning meeting |
110 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Weather Summary: document on the weather situation of the day, |
111 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** I would like to add an assistant position, a student that could prepare the Weather Summary |
112 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | |
113 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Assistant Chief Forecaster:* |
114 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | |
115 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | ** supports the chief forecaster |
116 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | ** prepares weather summary |
117 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | |
118 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Technical Manager:* |
119 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
120 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Organizes the meetings (on-time start, infrastructure (computer, video projector, streaming via Adobe Connect System) |
121 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Takes care of NAWDEX wiki (updates of main page, presentations, summaries, pictures) |
122 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Collects reports |
123 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
124 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Instrument Manager:* |
125 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
126 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Collects information from all instrument PI’s on current isntrument status |
127 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** A person from the instrument groups |
128 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Deliverables: |
129 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Instrument summary (summary of the instrument status of the day, describe possible work on instruments) |
130 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Instrument status table (overview of instrument status that is provided on the Wiki page) |
131 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
132 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Mission Scientists* |
133 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
134 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** 1-3 persons (1 per aircraft, 1 at the ground) that are responsible to conduct a mission |
135 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Deliverables |
136 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** 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 |
137 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Mission on-board: in-flight decisions HALO: communication with ground, dropsonde releases, Falcon: wind lidar operator |
138 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Mission ground: monitors PLANET chat during the research flight, upload of most recent satellite images |
139 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Post-flight: mission summary (document that summarizes all events during a flight including onboard/ground) |
140 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
141 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Coordinator for Ground-Based Observations:* |
142 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
143 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Distributes information to all ground-based observation facilities |
144 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Activation of additional radiosonde observations *_(more Information will follow)_* |
145 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
146 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | * *DLR Flight Facility:* coordination of flights and flight planning with pilots |
147 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
148 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Katrin Witte (Project engineer DLR-FX, katrin.witte[at]dlr.de) |
149 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Andreas Minikin (Project engineer DLR-FX, andreas.minikin[at]dlr.de) |
150 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Frank Probst (DLR-FX Operations, Frank.Probst[at]dlr.de) |
151 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Stefan Hempe (DLR-FX Operations, Stefan.Hempe[at]dlr.de) |
152 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
153 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Campaign Reporter:* |
154 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | |
155 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Creates the campaign diary that will be provided on the Wiki page |
156 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Position can be filled by all volunteers: PhD student, instrument operator, radiosonde operator,… |
157 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Deliverables: Create a short blog contribution that shows the day from different perspectives Collect some pictures of the day |
158 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Here is an example that gives a rough idea http://blogs.esa.int/campaignearth/2015/05/20/windval-petta-reddast/ |
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160 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | --- |
161 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
162 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | h2. (5) Coordination with other Aircraft/Ground-Based Observation: |
163 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | |
164 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | * *French Falcon* |
165 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | |
166 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | *** French Falcon obervation period: 29 Sep – 17 Oct |
167 | 47 | Andreas Schäfler | *** French Falcon transfers: Wed, 28 Sept (to Keflavic) and 17 Oct back to Toulouse |
168 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Contacts: Julien Delanoe (LATMOS/IPSL/UVSQ), Gwendal Rivière (LMD-ENS), Philippe Arbogast (Météo France) |
169 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | *** The French planning team will stay with us in the operation center near the Airport |
170 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | *** _procedure on the exchange of information and regular meetings has to be discussed (should be done before the HALO/Falcon General Meeting starts)_** |
171 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | *** The Scientific Manager will be the contact person from our side |
172 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | |
173 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Global Hawk / SHOUT* |
174 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | |
175 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Global Hawk: (Jim, please add exact dates with overlap), |
176 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Contacts: Jim Doyle (NRL) will coordinate the exchange of information with the SHOUT team, Jason Dunion (NOAA) |
177 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Daily coordination calls from XX Sep to XX Oct at XX UTC |
178 | 36 | Andreas Schäfler | |
179 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | * *UK BAE 146* |
180 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | |
181 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Operates from Cranfield |
182 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Operation period: 19-30 September, 9-16 October, 2-3 double-flight missions), |
183 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Contact: John Methven (U Reading) |
184 | 46 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Daily coordination calls from XX Sep to XX Oct at 0830 UTC |
185 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | |
186 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | * *Ground-based observations _(this section needs to be specified)_* |
187 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | |
188 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | ** Managed by the ground-based observation coordinator |
189 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | ** +Observations:+ |
190 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** DLR radiosondes (operated by M. Bramberger, from ) |
191 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** France: |
192 | 49 | Andreas Schäfler | **** Lannion (Brittany, France): jean-marie.donier[at]meteo.fr (UHF), Pierre.bosser[at]ensta-bretagne.fr (GPS station) and julien.delanoe[at]latmos.ipsl.fr (cloud radars) |
193 | 49 | Andreas Schäfler | **** Cloud radar and RS in SIRTA (near Paris, France) (lidar and other remote sensing instruments available): contact: jean-charles.dupont[at]ipsl.polytechnique.fr). |
194 | 48 | Andreas Schäfler | **** Iceland: Cloud radar and mini lidar to be deployed during French campaign) |
195 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Canada: |
196 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | **** automatic 6-hourly releases from 19 Sep - 17 Oct |
197 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | **** *_(add list os Station names)_* |
198 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** UK: |
199 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | **** Contact: Geraint Vaughan |
200 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | **** *_(add some Information on Aberystwyth super site)_* |
201 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** Norway: |
202 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | *** 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 |
203 | 40 | Andreas Schäfler | |
204 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | --- |
205 | 1 | Andreas Schäfler | |
206 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | h2. (6) Reports: |
207 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | |
208 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | A number of reports will be created to document weather and planning process. They will be uploaded to the Wiki every day so that all people can follow the campaign in Iceland. |
209 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | The reports include: |
210 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | |
211 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | * Weather Summary (written by chief forecaster and assistant) |
212 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | * Planning Summary (written by science manager) |
213 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | * Mission Report (written by mission scientist ground/air) |
214 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | * Instrument Report (written by the instruemnt manager) |
215 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | |
216 | 42 | Andreas Schäfler | All templates can be found at: https://internal.wavestoweather.de/nawdex/projects/nawdex/wiki/Templates |