ions06 logo

IONS06 Workshop Agenda

Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
March 21-22, 2007



March 21
8:30 a.m. Introduction and welcome B. Brune (Penn State, Head, Meteorology Dept.)
8:40 a.m. IONS- 2004, 2006 Overview A.M. Thompson (Penn State)
9:10 a.m. IONS data and Aura Validation Updates J. Witte (SSAI)
A. Douglass (NASA/GSFC)
9:30 a.m. Toronto IONS Workshop Summary D. Tarasick (EC-MSC)
9:50 a.m. Session 1: IONS Data and Ozone Process - Chair, S. Oltmans (NOAA/ESRL) S. Oltmans (NOAA/ESRL)
O. Cooper (CU-CIRES) Persistent UT Ozone Maximum
10:30-10:00 a.m. Break
11:10 a.m. A case study of a tropopause fold A. Robichaud (Environment Canada)
11:40 a.m. Comparing the TOPSE and INTEX-B sonde results J. Merrill (Univ. of Rhode Is.)
12:10 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. The relationship between lightning NOx and upper tropospheric ozone O. Cooper (NOAA)
2:30 p.m. Comparison of western North American sites in spring and summer S. Oltmans (NOAA)
3:00 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Aircraft measurements during INTEX-B R. Leaitch (Environment Canada)

November 17: Budgets and processes: model and/or satellite comparisons
9:00 a.m. STE: A lagrangian perspective M. Bourqui (McGill Univ.)
9:40 a.m. A radar-ozonesonde intensive/FLEXPART modeling T. Carey-Smith (Environment Canada)
10:00 p.m. STE measurement and modeling in ESCOMPTE J. Kaminski (York Univ.
10:30 a.m. break
11:00 a.m. GEM-AQ comparisons J. McConnell (York Univ.)
11:30 a.m. AURAMS and CHRONOS comparisons M. Moran (Environment Canada)
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:40 p.m. Assimilaing tropoospheric O3 observations from TES D. Thomas (Univ. Toronto)
2:10 p.m. Toronto FTIR measurements during STE events K Strong (Univ. Toronto)
2:30 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Discussion and wrap-up