News and Events Archive
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- 14 November: ACME/CME Science Meeting, NCAR Foothills Lab, FL2-1002, 12:15 to 2:00
- 4 November: ACME/CME Science Meeting, NCAR Foothills Lab, EOL Atrium, 8:30 to 10:30.
- 27 October: ACME/CME Working Lunch, NCAR Mesa Lab Cafeteria, 12:00 to 1:30
- 13 October: ACME/CME Science Meeting, NCAR Foothills Lab, EOL Atrium, 9:30 to 11:00.
- 22 September: ACME participant posters for the 7th International Carbon Dioxide Conference in Broomfield, Colorado (25-30 September 2005) are being posted in the Presentations section. Presentations from all the ICDC7 talks are available at the ICDC7 website.
- 6 September: ACME/CME Science Meeting, NCAR Mesa Lab, Damon Room, 9:30 to 12:00.
- Meeting agenda and notes
- A strawman CME-07 Preliminary Experiment Design was presented and discussed. A copy of the presentation is available.
- Meeting and Workshop Opportunities
- 6 July: The RAF C-130 ACME project web page is now available. The NCAR Research Aviation Facility website has the final documentation for the C-130 airborne measurements obtained during ACME 2004 field campaign. Both the Low-Rate (LRT, 1 sample per second) and High-Rate (HRT, 25 sps, mixed) production data sets are available on-line.
- 23 June: Images of MODIS GPP with flight tracks overplotted are now available from the Data section.
- 10 May: MCR images are now available from the data page.
- 6 to 8 April: Keystone Science Meeting
- 5 April: There have been significant updates to the Data and Results sections.
- 28 March: The work agenda for the Keystone Science Meeting (6 to 8 April, 2005) is available. Please revisit the page for the latest updates.
- 23 March: The low-rate production flight-level data from the C-130 are now available. We are working on the high-rate data which is not yet ready for release. The ACME low-rate data catalog, with links to request individual data files, is available via a web interface. The same web page also allows downloading all the files at once. Look at the bottom of the web page for the link entitled "Click here to retrieve all data files for this project." Other resources, including an example netCDF header documenting the measurement list, are also available.
- 15 March: The ACME and CME All Hands meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 16 March. It will be at the NCAR Mesa Lab, Damon Conference Room from 1:00 to 3:00. Directions and a map can be found at this link. An agenda is available.
- 27 January: Hydra CO 2 data from last summer is available. Follow the link in the updted Ground-based Operations section. The Photos section was updated with photos taken at the CU Ameriflux site.
- 25 January: The ACME and CME All Hands meeting is scheduled for Monday, 7 February. It will be at the NCAR Mesa Lab, Damon Conference Room from 9:00 to 12:00. Directions and a map can be found at this link. An agenda is available.
- 11 January: Posters presented at the AGU 2004 Fall Meeting (13-17 Dec 2004, San Francisco, CA) are available in the Presentations section.
- 5 November: The ACME and CME meeting is currently scheduled for Friday, 11/12/2004, at the NCAR Foothills Lab. The meeting will start at 13:30 in conference room FL1-2133.
- 11 October: Ground-based Operations has been updated.
- 15 September: A poster template is available. The ACME Resources page has links to Photos, GIS Resources, the News Archive, Presentations, and Quick Links to related sites.
- 3 September: Ground-based Operations has been updated.
- 2 August: We had an excellent last flight, RF16, and have concluded the airborne operations for this campaign. Thanks to everyone for all the hard work. A preliminary data review meeting will be scheduled in a few weeks.
- 1 August: Instead of two, we will fly one 4.5 hour flight on Monday, focusing on midday uptake and linking to the recently deployed CO 2 network on Niwot Ridge. We will plan for a 9 AM take-off with the possibility of delaying 30-60 minutes if the weather looks favorable for VFR conditions extending later in the day. The weather review and flight planning meeting will be at 7:00 AM and all crew should be on hand by 8:00 AM.
- 29 July: RF14 and RF15 research flights. Check the ACME hotline for 2 August plans.
- 28 July: The current plan is for a 0630 takeoff tomorrow morning for a flight over the Niwot study area. The science crew should be at RAF by 0530. The go/no-go meeting is at 0430. Check the ACME hotline for the latest updates.
- 27 July: Tentative plan for a research flight on Thursday, 29 July. This will be confirmed by 2pm, 28 July via the ACME hotline.
- 26 July: RF12 and RF13 research flights over the Niwot study area.
- 23 July: We plan to fly again on Monday morning (take off 0630). Please check the ACME hotline on Sunday afternoon for last minute updates.
- 22 July: This morning's flight, RF11, was successful, and we saw persistently high CO 2 at low altitudes associated with respiration into a very stable layer. We have cancelled the afternoon flight because of rapid storm development. Steve Oncley's photos of the C-130 flying over the Aspen tower on 22 July between 0700 and 0730 are available in the Photos section. We plan to fly again on Monday morning (take off 0630). Please check the ACME hotline on Sunday afternoon for last minute updates.
- 21 July: The current plan is for a 0630 takeoff tomorrow morning for a flight over the Niwot study area. The science crew should be at RAF by 0530. The go/no-go meeting is at 0430. Check the ACME hotline for the latest updates. If conditions permit, there will be a follow-on afternoon flight for the Niwot area.
- 20 July: RF09 and RF10 research flights over the Hayman fire scar area.
- 19 July: The current plan is for an 0630 takeoff tomorrow morning for a 3.5 hour flight over the Hayman Fire area. Science crew should be at RAF by 0530. Be sure to check in with Allen Schanot prior to the flight. Dawn patrol's go/no-go meeting will be at 0430. As always, the ACME hotline will have the latest updates.
- 15 July: Go/no-go decision for Friday at 1:30 PM. Check the ACME hotline for details.
- 14 July: Current plans call for flights on Friday and then again next Tuesday, but we will still keep this Thursday open for possible flights pending a weather review and go/no-go decision at 1:30 PM today.
- 13 July: Safety Briefing and Planning Meeting at RAF (1 pm)
- 12 July: RF07 and RF08 research flights
- 9 July: July Operations
- Safety Briefing
- The second and final general safety briefing for those people planning to fly on the C-130 will take place at 1300 on Tuesday July 13. The briefing will be held in the JeffCO conference room, with subsequent tour through the C-130.
- ACME flights
- ACME flights will not begin until the week of 12 July. Current plans call for a set of standard morning/afternoon paired flights on Monday the 12th - 0600 takeoff on morning mission. Everyone should expect to revert to a normal field OPS schedule (7 days a week open for flights) for the second half of the project. In order to keep everyone abreast of project status during the weekends, we have set up an ACME status hotline. The phone number is: (303) 497-1040. The message will be stored as the standard greeting on that line. The phone will not pick up until ring 4 - be patient. Do not try and leave messages on this line. We will try to provide status updates by 1300 on the day preceeding a planned mission.
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- 1 July: Planning meeting at RAF (9:30am)
- 23 June: Planning meeting at RAF (2pm)
- 28 May: We will fly a 1.5-2 hr flight this afternoon with a 2 PM takeoff. Science crew (Stephens, Shertz, Rochester, Sacks, Anderson, Thomas), please be at RAF by 1 PM. Research objectives for RF06, today's flight,:
- Model boundary sawtooth and racetrack/rollercoaster for assimilation model
- Racetrack legs for flux signals
- CMDL flask sampling for CO 2 and CO comparisons
- Denver urban plume profile for SIO 14C samples, CMDL-SIO 14C comparison, and U. Utah isotopes.
- 27 May: Research flight RF05
- 26 May: We're on for a 6:30 take-off tomorrow morning. Science crew (Stephens, Jones, Sacks, Shertz, Rochester, Oncley) should be at RAF by 5:30.
- 21 May: Boulder Daily Camera article "NCAR flies high to study greenhouse gases: scientists collect air samples to examine forest and CO2 ties"
- 20 May: Research flights RF03 and RF04
- 20 May: We are planning an 0630 takeoff tomorrow morning for a 4 hour flight and a 1330-1400 takeoff tomorrow afternoon for a 2 hour flight. Go/No Go meeting will be at 0500. Conditions look similar to last Friday's flight, with morning fog and afternoon thunderstorms a possibility. The morning flight plan will be very similar to last week's but we will go more to to the southwest for the last sawtooth. In the afternoon we will try as planned before, with the possibility of filing IFR if necessary to get west of the divide. Science crew should be ready to go by 0530 and includes Stephens, Graven, Schimel, Sacks, Campos, Rochester and Baker. For the afternoon flight Shertz replaces Rochester. There may also be up to 4 journalists on each of the flights tomorrow. See you bright and early.
- 19 May: Flight Planning meeting at RAF (1 pm)
- 18 May: Science and flight planning meeting at RAF (11 am)
- 17 May: Pictures from the first research flight and the CU Tower are posted in the Operations section.
- 14 May: Research flights RF01 and RF02
- 11 May: RAF flight planning meeting scheduled for today at 3:30
- 9 May: ACME is featured on the UCAR home page.
- 6 May: Safety briefing at 10:30am. Time and date may change depending on flight status.
- 4 May: Link to the NCAR/ATD Integrated Surface Flux Facility at CME04 page is posted.
- 3 May: 4 km realtime WRF simulations are available via our Operations page and the NCAR/MMM Real-time Modeling page. UCAR/JOSS is archiving the 4 km model output with NOWRAD images and output from the ETA model and 10 km WRF CONUS runs.
- 3 May: Second Test Flight (ATD Research Aviation Facility)
- 30 April: Boulder Daily Camera article "Flybys to gauge carbon dioxide levels near forests"
- 29 April: Tentative plans, based on weather and testing needs, are for a second test flight, focussing on wind and pressure calibrations in smooth air, either Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning and our first research flights either Wednesday or Thursday. Look to Channel 4 news at 6 tonight for an interview. The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, and the Daily Camera may have articles tomorrow as well.
- 28 April: First Test Flight
- 26 April: National Science Foundation Press Release on ACME
- Next project meeting: Tuesday, 27 April at 3:00 pm in the RAF conference room. Agenda
- On Tuesday, April 27th at 2:00 PM there will be a mandatory safety briefing for all participants planning to fly who have not previously flown on the C130 or had a recent safety briefing. We will follow the safety briefing with regular project meeting at 3:00 PM. Our first potential test flight will be the following day, Wednesday the 28th.
- The tower locations are posted.
- A map showing the ACME Project Area and rough model boundaries has been posted.
- The C-130 Turning Radius table is now available.
- The latest proposed flight tracks are available in the Racetrack Pattern and Missed Approach sections of Airborne Operations.
- We have received the new STILT model and are working on getting it installed and running. Background information including a summary paper and the use of STILT for larger scale flux estimation is available.
- Rough itineraries for both AM and PM flights are available for discussion.
- The U.S Naval Observatory's Sunrise Data is posted for selected days.
- A map covering the project area and showing SRTM-based (30m) topography, airports, the tower and the 2002 fire perimeters is available in the Maps section. The input files (ArcMap format) used to produce this map are also available. See GIS Resources for more information. A 3D scene of the topography, rendered with the solar altitude and azimuth for 5 May at 0730 is also posted.