Dear Colleagues,

please find attached the DRAFT Minutes (prepared by T. Fehr) of the very
short

MIPAS Science Team Meeting
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
23 September 2005, 09:00-09:30

General Remark:
Due to a unforeseeable change in plans, the Science Meeting was sacrificed
for a shift in  the MIPAS QWG #8 Meeting, 22/23 September 2005

1. Mission Planning:

1.1 Balloon Campaign

Location: Southern France
Date: 26 September - 24 October 2005
Planned Launches:
      Total: 5
      For Validation : 2
MIPAS/ENVISAT planning:
Foreseen MIPAS (ENVISAT) operation for the campaign support
      Nominal:
            Switch-on: 26 September 2005
            Mode: UTLS-1
            Week 1 / Week 2: 6 Orbits/day (3 morning / 3 evening) (43 % duty
cycle)
            Week 2 / Week 4: 3-4 Orbits/day
      Actions/Intervention:
            a) As soon as validation flights are completed, MIPAS operation
will be stopped
            Time needed to stop operation is about half  a day
            AI-01: Hermann Ölhaf to inform Marta
            b) Marta is expecting input for the planning of Week 3+4 at the
end of Week 1
            AI-02: Hermann Ölhaf: Update Mission plan if feasible and to
inform Marta
            AI-03: Marta de Laurentis: Adopt mission plan
Foreseen operation following the campaign:
      Upper Atmosphere mode starting on 28/10/2005

In case the MIPAS support for the campaign is covering the complete campaign,
it is recommended to interrupt the MIPAS operation at least one week (see QWG
#8) presentation by Peter Moser, ASTRIUM)

This, as well as the operation during the campaign critically depends on the
MIPAS performance regarding IDU errors following the resumed operations:
AI-04: Peter Moser to update Herman Ölhaf, Marta de Laurentis, Claus Zehner
and Thorsten Fehr on the instrument performance as soon as reliable
information on the system recovery is available.

1.2 SCOUT

Location: Northern Australia (Darwin), Maritime Continent
Date: 13 November - 09 December 2005
Setup: Focus on aircraft measurements

It was agreed to support the campaign
A campaign support planning will be ready two weeks before the campaign
AI-05: Hermann Ölhaf to provide input for the planning


2. Public Relations

2.1 ESA Image Gallery
The images provided to the gallery have to be high resolution with at least
300 dpi.
As a result images provided on most web pages do not have the required
resolution
AI-06: ALL to provide high resolution illustrative images based on MIPAS
observation - to be put onto following ftp server: ftp:styx.esrin.esa.it,
login:project7, passw.: scar7face, dir:MIPASPR

3. Next MIPAS Science Team Meeting
It was decided to connect the meeting to the MIPAS Validation Meeting held at
IMK, Karlsruhe, 29/30 November.

Place: IMK, Karlsruhe
Two proposed dates:
      Mo., 28 November 2005
      Th., 01 December 2005
AI-07: ALL to confirm their availability to Claus Zehner asap