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Level 2 Ocean Salinity

Planning the year ahead

21 April 2015

ARGANS & SMOS L2OS ESL

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Planning for 2015

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• 4 May v6xx L1/L2 deployed, start of L2 reprocessing

• Training Course @ ESAC 18-22 May; Science Conference 25-29 May

• QWG#17 30 June – 2 July:updated DIP; task progress presentations

• July: milestone 1 acceptance of deliverables & progress report (30%)

• September: PM#28 @ ESAC (TBC)

• October: QWG#18new processor results & task progress presentationsupdated DIP & LTP & delivery plan for Phase 2 for ESA (TBC)

• November: L2OS new processors FAT• November: PM#29 via WebEx (TBC)

• December: milestone 2 acceptance of deliverables & progress report (50%)

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PM#27 objectives

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• Share results & discuss issues – last face-to-face PM was May 2013 @ BEC!

• Review tasks, actions & priorities

• Gather status so we can draft a preliminary progress report for July

• Review & agree milestone deliverables for 2015

• Plan what we want to present/discuss at QWG#17

• Define technical specification for next version of L2OS processor

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2015 deliverables (as agreed at January KO meeting)

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• Milestone 1 (July 2015)Progress reportReprocessing report (move to M2?)T1.1:

land-sea contamination TN (JT)Performance Assessment TN (all)Prototype processor using land-sea ADFs

T2.2: updated roughness models & TGRD from ESL (x3)T1.3: TN on L1 data filtering based on new reprocessing

• Milestone 2 (December 2015):Progress reportT1.1:

land-sea TDS run using prototype processorESL analysis (PPSR) of TDS using Performance Assessment TN

New operational processor & docs (updated ATBD, DPM, TGRD, IODD…)T2.3: updated AUX_GAL2OS & TGRD & TDS & PPSR from ESL (JT)T3.3: new TEC product definition

• Above TBC with ESA Technical Officer & QWG…

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5http://www.argans.co.uk/smos/L2OS/documents.html (smos, sss2008)

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L2OS ESL Gantt chart

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http://www.argans.co.uk/smos/L2OS/gantt.html

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7Detailed Implementation Plan: http://www.argans.co.uk/smos/L2OS/DIP.html

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8Detailed Implementation Plan: http://www.argans.co.uk/smos/L2OS/DIP.html