NDACC News and Highlights

January 2012/May 2012:

This section highlights significant items of interest within NDACC, with updates at least annually following the NDACC Steering Committee meeting.

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TCCON

Call for Proposals for International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences

The 2011 NDACC Symposium

TCCON

The NDACC welcomes as a Cooperating Network the Total Column Carbon Observing Network (TCCON). Though the primary data product is high precision total column CO2 several other gases are retrieved and archived as well. Sites for the network span the globe to provide diverse and targeted data for use as validation sites for the GOSAT and OCO-2 CO2 observing satellites as well as monitoring the seasonal cycle and long-term evolution of CO2. The network shares common methodologies, technical issues and membership with the NDACC/IRWG. The instruments are solar viewing Fourier transform spectrometers providing near-infrared spectra. Employing a network wide common retrieval technique and site specific aircraft calibrated retrievals the network aims to provide a temporally dense, globally consistent data coverage. Details and data can be found at http://www.tccon.caltech.edu/ .

2012 Call for International Teams in Space Science

The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) as issued its 2012 call for Team proposals. Details can be found at the ISSI web site: http://www.issibern.ch/spotlight/ISSI_annual_call2012.pdf

The 2011 NDACC Symposium

An international Symposium celebrating 20 years of global atmospheric research enhanced by NDACC/ NDSC observations was held the November 7-10, 2011 in Saint Paul, Reunion Island, France. The symposium was organized by the Observatoire de Physique de l'Atmosphere de la Reunion. Attendees were given the opportunity to visit the Maido Observatory which is scheduled to begin operations in early 2012. A Symposium summary is beign written and will be available shortly.

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