EOS Aura Science Team Meeting AGENDA
August 27 - August 29, 2019
Pasadena, CA, USA


  1. A Methodology to Constrain Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Coal-fired Power Plants Using Satellite Observations of Co-Emitted Nitrogen Dioxide (Fei Liu) PDF
  2. The importance of accounting for the free tropospheric background when interpreting satellite observations of tropospheric NO2 columns (Rachel Silvern, Daniel Jacob to present) PDF
  3. Using OMI NO2 to infer fossil-fuel emissions of CO2 from large metropolitan areas in the United States (Dan Goldberg) PDF
  4. Using OMI NO2 observations to evaluate seasonal trends in NOx emissions over eastern China: influence of NOx chemistry (Viral Shah) PDF
  5. SO2 emissions estimated using OMI SO2 and NO2 retrievals (2005-2017) (Zhen Qu) PDF
  6. Reconciling reported NOx and SO2 emissions with those derived from OMI and TROPOMI (Chris McLinden) PDF


  1. Doing chemistry with MLS data and the GEOS-StratChem model: towards a multispecies reanalysis of the stratosphere (Krzysztof Wargan) PDF
  2. MLS Observations of Composition in the Stratospheric Plume from the 2017 British Columbia Pyroconvection Event (Michael Schwartz) PDF
  3. Using Aura MLS data to Reinterpret Nearly Half Century of Ozone Record from the Nadir UV Instruments (PK Bhartia) PDF
  4. The Long-Lived Plume of the Pacific Northwest PyroCb Event: Diabatic Lofting and Radiative Effects of Aerosol and Water Vapor (George Kablick) PDF
  5. Using fifteen years of ACE-FTS observations to examine changes in atmospheric CFCs and HCFCs (Patrick Sheese) PDF


  1. Horizontal winds, potential vorticity, and stratopause characteristics from a mesospheric and upper stratospheric unified dataset (Luis Millan) PDF
  2. Upper tropospheric tropical variations and trends in ozone and carbon monoxide: Microwave Limb Sounder and model results (Lucien Froidevaux) PDF
  3. Using Multi-Decadal Records of Long-Lived Constituents to Understand Dynamical Processes Affecting O3 Trends (Anne Douglass) PDF
  4. A New OH Dilemma? ---- The Gap Between Model and Aura MLS Observations in Mesospheric OH (Shuhui Wang, presented by King-Fai Li) PDF



Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Session 1: Introductions and Aura Mission Updates
Chair: Bryan Duncan
08:30 - 08:35 Welcome  PDF
08:35 - 08:50 Aura to Exit the A-Train?  PDF Dominic Fisher
08:50 - 09:20 OMI Update  PDF Pieternel Levelt
09:20 - 09:50 MLS Update  PDF Nathaniel Livesey
09:50 - 10:05 NASA HQ Perspective  PDF Ken Jucks
Session 2: Retrospectives & Looking Forward (Invited; 20 min each)
Chair: Jessica Neu
10:05 - 10:25 Development of the Aura Mission  PDF Mark Schoeberl
10:25 - 10:55 break
10:55 - 11:15 How Aura transformed air quality research with a look forward to TROPOMI and geostationary satellites  PDF Daniel Jacob
11:15 - 11:35 Quantifying and confirming our understanding of processes controlling stratospheric ozone: Insights from Aura MLS and OMI  PDF Michelle Santee
11:35 - 12:00 What We Have Learned From HIRDLS: Looking Past the Blockage, and to the Future  PDF John Gille + 5 min for Alice
12:00 - 13:15 lunch
13:15 - 17:45 ESMO Working Group (open meeting; side room)
Session 3: Inferring Emissions from Satellite Data (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: John Gille
13:15 - 14:35
Discussion & Questions for Speakers (20 min)
Session 4a: Stratospheric & Mesospheric Processes Part 1 (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: Nathaniel Livesey
14:35 - 15:25
15:25 - 15:55 break
Session 4b: Stratospheric & Mesospheric Processes Part 2 (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: Nathaniel Livesey
15:55 - 17:05
Discussion & Questions for Speakers (20 min)
Session 5: Retrospectives & Looking Forward (Invited; 20 min each)
Chair: Ernie Hilsenrath
17:05 - 17:25
Decadal multi-constituent chemical reanalysis and its applications in air quality and climate research  PDF Kazuyuki Miyazaki
17:25 - 17:45 A review of convection's impact on the TTL and the lower stratosphere as seen in MLS data  PDF Andrew Dessler
STM dinner: “TES – A Celebration of Life”

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  1. 2005-2016 trends of ozone pollution and formaldehyde columns over China observed by satellites (Lu Shen) PDF
  2. Direct observation of changing NOx lifetime in North American cities (Joshua Laughner) PDF
  3. Megacity Pollution from Aura TES and OMI and SNPP CrIS (Karen Cady-Pereira) PDF
  4. Boosting the use of air quality satellite data (Johanna Tamminen)
  5. SCOAPE (Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollution Experiment): Overview with OMI and Pandora NO2 Column Comparisons in the Gulf of Mexico, May 2019 (Anne Thompson) PDF
  6. Diagnosing long-term and short-term changes in ozone production sensitivity to precursor emissions: the view from space (Xiaomeng Jin) PDF
  7. Mapping the Oxidizing Capacity of the Global Remote Troposphere (Glenn Wolfe) PDF
  8. Changes in the Diurnal Cycle of Surface Ozone over Four Decades (Sarah Strode) PDF


  1. Using Aura information in NUWRF applications on air quality, water and carbon cycles (Min Huang) PDF
  2. Using satellite data to estimate the conditions for formation of secondary aerosol particles and sulphuric acid concentrations (Anu-Maija Sundstrom) PDF
  3. Northern Hemisphere tropospheric ozone increases since the mid-1990s: evidence from IAGOS, remote surface sites and OMI/MLS (2004-2018) (Owen Cooper) PDF


  1. Space-time variability in UTLS chemical distribution associated with the Asian summer monsoon and process-based retrieval information content evaluations (Laura Pan) PDF
  2. Upper Tropospheric Cloud and Moisture Structures in Relation to Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Intensification Rate (Hui Su) PDF
  3. Improvements of CMIP6 models in simulating the upper-tropospheric water vapor mixing ratio and cloud ice (Jonathan Jiang)
  4. Wave activity in the tropical tropopause layer and lower stratosphere as viewed by Aura MLS and compared to reanalysis data sets (Alyn Lambert) PDF
  5. Using Aura MLS observations to model budget terms, strat-trop fluxes, and surface variability of N2O (Daniel Ruiz) PDF
  6. A warming tropical central Pacific dries the lower stratosphere (Qinghua Ding) PDF
  7. Impact of convectively detrained ice crystals on the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (Eric Jensen for Rei Ueyama)
  8. Tropopause laminar cirrus and its role in the lower stratosphere total water budget (Tao Wang) PDF
  9. The intraseasonal variability of carbon monoxide in middle troposphere and lower stratosphere (King-Fai Li) PDF



Wednesday August 28, 2019
Session 6: Retrospectives & Looking Forward (Invited; 20 min) + 1 Short Talk (10 min)
Chair: Joanna Joiner
08:30 - 08:40 Sodankyla National Satellite Data Centre (NSDC) and its support to OMI community  PDF
08:40 - 09:00 OMI, TROPOMI and Climate Studies: Solar Irradiances  PDF Sergey Marchenko
Session 7a: Tropospheric Studies Part 1 (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: Bryan Duncan
09:00 - 10:20
10:20 - 10:50 break
Session 7b: Tropospheric Studies Part 2 (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: Bryan Duncan
10:50 - 11:40
Discussion & Questions for Speakers (20 min)
Session 8: Retrospectives & Looking Forward (Invited; 20 min each)
Chair: Pepijn Veefkind
11:40 - 12:00 The Origin Story of OMI  PDF Pieternel Levelt
12:00 - 12:20 Observing Gravity Waves and Drag from Aura: The Search for Waves at the Limits of Resolution  PDF Joan Alexander
12:20 - 13:35 lunch
13:35 - 16:25 Data Systems Working Group (open meeting; side room)
Session 9: UT/LS (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: Michelle Santee
13:35 - 15:25
Discussion & Questions for Speakers (10 min)
Session 10: Retrospectives & Looking Forward (Invited; 20 min each)
Chair: Johanna Tamminen
15:25 - 15:45 New perspectives on changes in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide from the OMI and TROPOMI sensors Folkert Boersma
15:45 - 16:05 Constraining the Earth System with EOS-Aura Observations: Some Examples from the GMAO Steven Pawson
16:05 - 19:30
Pecora Award Reception & Poster Session

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  1. Lightning NOx Production Estimated from OMI and TROPOMI NO2 Observations (Kenneth Pickering) PDF
  2. The 2005 Amazonia drought induced forest legacy effect delays the 2006 wet season onset (Mingjie Shi) PDF
  3. Estimating Convective Entrainment Rates Associated with Deep Convection Using Aura CO, CloudSat/CALIPSO, and AIRS Observations in Comparison With Two GEOS-5 Simulations (Hui Su for Ryan Stanfield) PDF
  4. A volcanic Aura - observing the magnitude and impact of global SO2 emissions (Simon Carn) PDF


  1. Aura Ozone and CO profiles retrieved from combined TES and MLS measurements (Ming Luo) PDF
  2. Harnessing information from new satellite observations of PAN in the troposphere (Emily Fischer) PDF
  3. Global Aerosol Distribution and Trends from the 14-year-long OMI Aerosol Record (Omar Torres) PDF


  1. Surface erythemal UV irradiance in the continental United States derived from ground-based and OMI observations: quality assessment, trend analysis and sampling issues (Jun Wang) PDF
  2. Long-term satellite data records of H2CO, C2H2O2 and H2O (Chris Miller) PDF
  3. Observations of NO2 from Aura/OMI: Latest Product Updates and First Comparisons with S5P TROPOMI (Nick Krotkov) PDF
  4. OMI water vapor product from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Huiqun Wang) PDF
  5. Characterization of A Joint AIRS and TES Composition Record of HDO, H2O, CH4, and CO (John Worden)
  6. Explicit measurements-based aerosol correction for OMI HCHO retrievals (Yeonjin Jung) PDF
  7. An observation-based correction for aerosol effects on nitrogen dioxide column retrievals using the Absorbing Aerosol Index (Matthew Cooper) PDF


  1. Benchmarking chemistry-climate model 9.6 micron ozone band top-of-atmosphere (TOA) flux using TES IRK (Le Kuai) PDF
  2. Towards a satellite formaldehyde - in situ hybrid estimate for organic aerosol abundance (Jin Liao) PDF
  3. Global Observations of SO2 from Aura/OMI: Latest Product Updates and Recent Discoveries (Can Li) PDF
  4. From LEO to GEO: TEMPO as a continuation of OMI, OMPS, TROPOMI, etc. (Kelly Chance)

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Thursday August 29, 2019
Session 11: Convection & Volcanos (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: Pieternel Levelt
08:30 - 09:20
Discussion & Questions for Speakers (10 min)
Session 12: Retrospectives & Looking Forward (Invited; 20 min each)
Chair: Lucien Froidevaux
09:20 - 09:40
Ozone Trends Science: Building on TES's Legacy and Looking to the Future  PDF Jessica Neu
09:40 - 10:00
Decadal-scale attribution of ozone and methane radiative forcing  PDF Kevin Bowman
Session 13a: Retrieval Improvements, New Products & Upcoming Missions Part 1 (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: PK Bhartia
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 break
Session 13b: Retrieval Improvements, New Products & Upcoming Missions Part 2 (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: Jim Gleason
11:00 - 12:10
12:10 - 13:25 lunch
Session 13c: Retrieval Improvements, New Products & Upcoming Missions Part 3 (10 min each; hold questions)
Chair: Kevin Bowman
13:25 - 14:25
Discussion & Questions for Speakers (20 min)
Session 14: Wrapping Up
Chair: Bryan Duncan
14:20 - 14:40 Aura Mission Status Briefing  PDF Dominic Fisher
14:40 - 14:50 Data System and Preservation Working Group Report 2019  PDF Paul Wagner
14:50 - 15:00 Aura STM Closing Remarks Bryan Duncan
End of Aura Science Team Meeting
15:30 - 18:00 OMI Science Team Technical Tag-Up (open meeting)