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Mission
Update –
Science is the word of the day. Operating in normal mode, SORCE
instruments are making excellent daily solar observations, with
nightly stellar observations for calibration. As the quality and
quantity of solar data continues to expand, the scientists and
engineers concentrate on verifying the instrument calibrations
and data processing software. New experiment commands are up-loaded
daily to the spacecraft.
Data are being distributed to the science community through the
Goddard Space Flight Center DAAC. For additional information on
obtaining SORCE data from the DAAC and reading the SORCE HDF data
files, see data_access.html.
SORCE
Science Meeting
December 4-6, Sonoma, California –
The next
SORCE Science Meeting – Physical Processes Linking Solar
Radiation and Solar Variability with Global Climate Change –
is set for December 4–6, 2003 in Sonoma, California. This
meeting will be the first science meeting since the January 25th
launch. The SORCE meeting dates have been selected to accommodate
people wanting to attend the AGU meeting, which is the following
week in San Francisco. We encourage your attendance and hope that
you will share this announcement with colleagues.
The scientific organizing committee members are Judith Lean from
NRL, Peter Pilewskie from NASA Ames Research Center, and Doug
Rabin from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The meeting will
be devoted to our understanding of the physical processes that
connect the Sun’s radiation and its variability to our terrestrial
environment, including the processes involved with climate and
ozone response to solar radiative forcing and the |
mechanisms
that cause solar activity and radiation variations. The agenda
will consist of both invited and contributed oral presentations
and posters. The featured speaker at the Science Meeting Dinner
on Thursday evening, Dec. 4, will be Dr. John Eddy, who will speak
about “Tales of the Sun and Climate”.
The following
topics will be covered during the meeting in the Scientific Sessions
planned:
- Solar
Radiation – Status of Current Measurements
- Climate
Change Processes Involving Solar Radiation in the Troposphere
- Global
Change Processes Involving Solar Radiation in the Stratosphere
- Processes
and Evidence for Long-Term Irradiance Variations
- Future
Directions in Sun-Climate Research
Please refer to the
meeting website for the complete meeting announcement, with additional
information on the agenda, Call for Papers, registration forms,
and travel and lodging information –
Dec03ScienceMeeting.html.
The website will be updated regularly with the latest science
program additions. |
