Oxford MIPAS meeting#78
05 Jul 05
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:15:49 +0200 Subject: Peer reviewed MIPAS validation papers Dear colleagues, In the meantime we made considerable progress with respect to the organization of the MIPAS validation papers but the process was much slower than expected. I appreciate it very much that the size of the special journal issue for MIPAS has increased considerably. In addition to our previous listing of papers we will get articles on level 1, level 2 and probably also on the micro window selection and error budget (see enclosure). This increase will strengthen the significance of this MIPAS journal issue. The main authors of the papers are fixed now (first name on the listing). Bruno Carli has offered to provide the participating scientists with the needed Averaging Kernels of MIPAS and also with the error budgets for the relevant trace constituents. The only open item is the fixation of the MIPAS data version and the availability of the reprocessed data. I tried several times to get this information from ESA but up to now this action item is still open. I will try to solve this problem very soon. Data assimilation: As stated in Vienna data assimilation shall not be fully integrated in our validation papers. This is an agreement with the scientists working in data assimilation. To my understanding they are preparing their own papers. But we think that we should involve some of these scientists for checking the consistency of the MIPAS data with model results and for improving the conicidence with external measurements. I would like to ask the main authors to become active and to complete the listing of participating scientists of their papers. In the past I got a larger number of e-mails of various colleagues about participating scientists and I am not sure that all are included in the enclosed listing. Please write directly to the main author of a paper if somebody should be added. Self evidently, the scientists who would like to be a co-author have to contribute essentially to the relevant article. In future, we shall send out e-mails with general (coordination) issues only to the lead authors. The lead authors are then to act as interface between us and the contributing authors. As the list of the contributing authors is not yet fixed, we think that this is the only way to keep the managament transparent and consolidated. Furthermore, due to the delays and due to the fact that both dates, as proposed last time, are not appropriate for various scientists we are faced with the need to postpone the foreseen meeting in fall 2005 : We can propose the following new options: Oct. 26/27 Nov. 3/4 Nov. 29/30 Please let us know via the lead author which dates you prefer and which dates are not suitable.