2010 Workshop:Andes Lidar Observatory Workshop
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Andes Lidar Observatory (ALO) Workshop
Location, Date/Time and Duration
2 hours
Conveners
Workshop Categories
Altitudes: MLT - Latitudes: mid-latitude - Inst/Model: optical - Other: Lidar, Imaging, and Meteor Radar
Format of the Workshop
Short Presentations
Estimated attendance
30
Conflicts with other workshops or Requested Specific Days
Conflict with Cubesat and other Lidar workshops.
Special technology requests
None other than one computer projector
Description
The Andes Lidar Observatory (ALO), located at 30o 13’ S, 70o 43’ W, Cerro Pachon, Chile, began observations with passive instrumentation, Sep 20, 2009. Na lidar operations are planned to begin June, 2010. This workshop will investigate several special events, with special attention to chaotic wave and instability conditions.
Instrument capabilities (paragraph plus table) UI and ERAU, Imager: 1 min, OH, All Sky ( Alan Liu) USU MTM: 6 min, OH & O2, 90 deg FOV (Mike Taylor and Dominique Pautet) Aerospace Imager: 5 sec, OH, (Jim Hecht) UI Photometer: 5 sec, OH, O2, Green Line, 3 deg FOV (Tony Mangognia) UI Meteor Radar: 1 hr, 2.5 km, 24 hr (Steve Franke) UI Na Wind/Temp Lidar (Gary Swenson and Alan Liu)
Event Days for early study are: November 18, 2009 (Plane Wave, qm) January 12 (ripples), 13 (front/wall waves), 2010 April 18, 2010 (Wall wave) May 7, 2010 (very active, multiple sources) {Movies will be shown of all events, leading to the discussions below}
The workshop will be organized around discussions each on:
1) (30min) Gravity wave climatology (includes MF) (Alan Liu and Mike Taylor)
Instruments: Imager: wave direction, phase speed, hwl, especially HF waves (UofI, Zhenhua Li) Meteor radar: mean wind, for intrinsic parameters, and vwl (UofI, Xian Lu) MTM: vert. prop. dir from O2 and OH phase, temperature amplitude (Mike Taylor, Dominique Pautet)
2) (30 min) Instabilities, ripples (Jim Hecht and Alan Liu)
3) (20 min) Wave interactions (Richard Walterscheid) GW, tides and planetary waves, combining results.
4) (40 min) Special topics (Mike Taylor , Gary Swenson, Others) a. Mountain waves (Steve Smith, BU) b. Bores and wall waves (Gary Swenson) c. Evanescent waves (TBD) d. Secondary waves (Hecht and Walterscheid)
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