Agenda

 

 

Draft Agenda - subject to change

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Presentation

  DAY 1
9:30 am Welcome    
9:40 am Objectives of Workshop Irfan Azeem (NOAA SWO) Presentation
  Review of Research and Operational Needs of Thermospheric Density Products
9:45 am Operational needs Tzu-Wei Fang (NOAA) Presentation
  Thermospheric Density Products Using LEO POD
10:15 am End-to-end process on deriving densities Christian Siemes & Jose van den IJssel (TU Delft) Presentation
10:45 am  Break    
11:00 am Research status on density estimation Eric Sutton (University of Colorado) Presentation
11:30 am Estimation of satellite drag parameters and mapping to density Jian Yao (St. Louis University) Presentation
12:00 pm  Lunch    
  Engineering and Physics Approaches for Density Derivation
1:00 pm Radiation pressure modeling Marek Ziebart (U College London) Presentation
1:30 pm Satellite drag coefficient modeling Piyush Mehta (West Virginia University) Presentation
2:00 pm Gas-surface interaction Marcin Pilinski (University of Colorado LASP) Presentation
2:30 pm Break    
  Discussion and Document Preparation
3:00 pm Working group discussion and input    
5:00 pm  Reception Mesa Lab Damon Room  
  DAY 2
  Validation and Verification of Thermospheric Density Estimates
9:00 am MAVEN accelerometer data vs. in-situ density measurements Shane Stone (NASA GSFC) Presentation
9:30  am Benchmarking and validation of orbit-derived neutral densities Katherine Garcia-Sage (NASA GSFC) Presentation
10:30 am Break    
10:45 am Plan to operationalization, next steps and concrete path forward    
12:00 pm Lunch Mesa Lab Cafeteria  
1:00 pm Closing