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The scientific
organizing committee members are Judith Lean from NRL, Peter Pilewskie
from NASA Ames Research Center, and Doug Rabin from GSFC. They
are putting together an exciting agenda and everyone anticipates
a very interesting meeting. We encourage your attendance and hope
that you will share this announcement with colleagues. It is available
with additional information on the SORCE website at Dec03ScienceMeeting.html
Complete meeting information will be available in early August
and will include an agenda, abstract forms, registration forms,
and meeting logistics. The final meeting announcement will be
distributed by e-mail and on the SORCE website. For additional
information, contact Vanessa George at vanessa.george@lasp.colorado.edu.
Special
Session at AGU Meeting –
A special session relevant to SORCE has been accepted for the
AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December 8-12. Falling under
the Solar and Heliospheric Physics (SPA) section, the session
(SH09) is called The Sun’s Spectrum and Life on Earth.
Conveners are Gary Rottman (LASP, SORCE Principal Investigator),
Robert Cahalan (NASA GSFC, SORCE Project Scientist), and Judith
Lean (NRL, SORCE Co-Investigator). Following is the abstract for
this session.
Earth receives its primary energy from the Sun in the form of
electromagnetic radiation that spans a wide range of wavelengths,
from the ultraviolet to the infrared. The atmosphere, surface
and oceans transmit, absorb, reflect and scatter this radiation
in different ways depending on wavelength. Changes in the Sun’s
radiation spectrum, whose integral defines the total solar irradiance,
are potential causes of climate and global change via radiative
and dynamical processes that may include direct surface heating,
altered circulation patterns and cloud formation, modulation of
ozone and the North Atlantic oscillation. As a result, understanding
and modeling a multitude of terrestrial processes and their temporal
variations depend upon reliable knowledge of the Sun’s spectrum
and its variability. A new generation of instrumentation that
includes, for the first time, the capability to measure the entire
solar spectral irradiance simultaneously with total irradiance,
was launched recently on the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
(SORCE). NPOESS will continue operational measurements of TSI
including the new spectral capability, but |
not
before 2012. One aim of this session is to convey the new solar
spectrum and variability results emerging from SORCE, in the context
of lessons learned from past and on-going solar monitoring, and
future needs. Equally important, the session aims to bring together
research from a wide variety of disciplines, which require precise
solar spectrum measurements.
If you are interested in submitting a paper to this session, AGU
abstract submission forms will be available by August 1. For more
information, the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting website is http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm03/.
You can also reach the AGU Meetings Department by calling 1-800-966-2481,
ext. 333 or by e-mailing meetinginfo@agu.org.
Upcoming
Meetings
SORCE scientists plan to present papers
or attend the following 2003 meetings:
- IUGG
Assembly 2003, June 30-July 11, Sapporo, Japan
- Intl.
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 21-25, Toulouse,
France
- SPIE
- Optical Science and Technology, Aug. 3-8, San Diego, California
- Characterization
and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing, Sept. 15-18,
Logan, Utah
- SORCE
Science Team Meeting, Dec. 4-6, Sonoma, California
- AGU
Fall Meeting, Dec. 8-12, San Francisco, California
To
submit information to this newsletter, please contact:
vanessa.george@
lasp.colorado.edu 
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