Second Workshop

of the Atmospheric program within AOE-2001

November 19 to 21, 2000 on Oden in Landskrona, Sweden

SECOND CIRCULAR FOR: Participants of the Atmospheric program within the ARCTIC OCEAN  EXPEDITION-2001, (AOE-2001).

FROM:                                   Caroline Leck, Erik Swietlicki and Michael Tjernström

SUBJECT:                             Workshop, November 19 to 21, 2000 in Landskrona, Sweden

                                                                                                 Stockholm/Lund November 16, 2000

 Dear Colleagues,

The icebreaker Oden is still in Landskrona. The Swedish Secretariat for Polar Research (SSPR) will have their  Arctic-2001 workshop November 21 to 22 onboard the icebreaker Oden. The workshop for the Atmospheric program will take place 19-21 November, as a follow-up to the first workshop we had in Hyytiälä, Finland.

We therefore would like to invite you to a pre-expedition workshop on November 19-21 in Landskrona in order to finalize the detailed logistics for the field experiment and to discuss upcoming modeling activities. Michael Tjernström, Erik Swietlicki and myself will be your local hosts. For further planning of the workshop, we would appreciate if you as soon as possible (at the latest November 1) could let us know the dates for your arrival and departure. We will then make the final arrangements for travel and accommodation. Some travel and full accommodation support will be available.

During the workshop the participants will (a more detailed agenda will be sent out in a few weeks time):

1)                 give a brief (15min) presentation of contributing efforts (instruments and models),

2)                 give a status report on the development of new techniques, experimental methods and models,

3)                 discuss the instrumental and model limitations,

4)                 discuss final cruise track and waypoints, locations of vans onboard Oden, and other platforms (balloon/kite, ice sheet and helicopter),

5)                 discuss ship support service (e.g. space and power) essential to the our program,

6)                 discuss ways to minimize the research handicaps which are unavoidable on an icebreaker,

7)                 tie the logistical needs of the atmospheric program (most important for the biological subprogram) with other program onboard,

8)                 establish procedures for pre-expedition instrumental calibration and intercomparision,

9)                 establish procedures for data quality control and criteria for post-experiment quality assurance,

10)             discuss data base structure and management

For an updated AOE-2001 Science and Implementation Plan, see http://www.fysik.lu.se/~eriksw/aoe2001/si_plan.htm

Looking very much forward to see you all soon in Stockholm,

                        Caroline Leck, Erik Swietlicki and Michael Tjernström